You'll need to point out to them that approaching zero percent spam comes at a cost of rejecting email from real paying customers. Ask them if they've ever taken a statistics course as part of their MBAs, and whether they understand the relationship between type 1 and type 2 errors - trying to eliminate one will increase the incidence of the other.
That's actual money lost to salve their annoyance. Kurt On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Steve Hart <sh...@wrightbg.com> wrote: > I understand this argument and agree completely. Unfortunately the particular > people involved are more interested in seeing their spam go down than they > are in missing the occasional important email. I'm also getting complaints > that their spam reports are too long. > > Makes no sense at all to me, but hey I'm not an exec. > > > Steve > > > > > Steve Hart > > Network Administrator > > 503.491.4343 -Direct | 503.492.8160 - Fax > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:37 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT: Spam from .info domains > > Kurt raises a valid point. 3-4 per week out of how many emails? Stopping > spam is like an exponential graph. The closer you get to stopping 100 > percent of the spam the more legit email you will block. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:35 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT: Spam from .info domains > > Rare, but yes we have. > > And for 3-4 per week, I'd just mark them and move on. > > Kurt > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
