Re: [Asrg] Why are we still here?

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas at dvb.homelinux.org>]

On 30/12/04 07:12 -1000, Peter Kay wrote:
> I've been a part of this list for some time now, in mostly lurking fashion.
> My question to the group is, if you read all the anti-spam vendors (me
> included), they all claim high-9 catch rates and near-zero false positives.

Let me see vendors successfully handling abuse desk mailboxes, or
mailboxes for sales, abuse, postmaster, and helpdesk at the edge MTA.

I am not really interested in per recipient mail filtering as much as
trying to make sure it doesn't get sent out in the first place.

> If this is the case, why are we still here trying to eliminate spam when one
> would think that, if the claims are true, the spam problem has been solved?
> I can only think of one of three reasons:
>  
> 1. The vendor claims are false.  In the real world, you still get lots of
> undesireable email.
> 2. The vendor claims are true, but we're a bunch of perfectionists searching
> for infinite resolution of Pi.
> 3. The filtering paradigm is a non-solution due to increased use of
> recipient resources (bandwith, storage, processing, end-user time, etc)
>  
> I'm jaded here because I just don't get any spam at all. To me, this group
> is firmly stuck in #2.  But I'd love to hear everyone's feedback/experience
> on "Why are we still here?"

#3 for me. In the opinions of the people that I know of here who are
handling significatint amounts of mail not destined for their own inbox,
that seems to be true too.

Devdas Bhagat

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