Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:19, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it >> >> after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and >> >> expensive modem connection. >> > >> > Most of the times you use pop3 then. For that there are many tools >> > deleting spam before you download it (like mailfilter). >> >> If such a tool is really efficent, then I'm OK. > > What they do is ask the pop server for just the headers of the email via > pop3's top command. Then it tries to remove the spam. In the end the data > still gets transferred it just never makes it onto a harddrive.
Ah :| So this is still not what we want. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
