Re: [Asrg] Re: bounces, and anit-spam principles

[Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Tony Finch wrote:
> >
> > Most users prefer to delegate this job. It's 10x more efficient
> > to do so.
>
> Not to quibble, but I would have guessed several orders of magnitude
> greater. Probably more. Also, for most of the world's 1+ billion users,
> I'd have added "effective" to "efficient"...

I was thinking in terms of the cost of accepting, storing, and retrieving
the user's email before passing it to the MUA filter and only then
discovering that 90% of it is spam, as opposed to rejecting it at SMTP
time.

Tony.
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