On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> wrote: > [ Please do not send redundant copies of on-list traffic. ] > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:15:43AM -0500, Dan Kaminsky wrote: >> My sense is that SPAM filtering is ghettoizing, i.e. there's a very >> small community of extraordinarily miserable people whose job it now >> is to deal with SPAM for the rest of their users. They've been so >> successful, even at 98%, that now users have NO tolerance for SPAM. >> In other words, the SPAM war appears to be won, nobody seems to know >> it's still being fought. > > First, the correct term is "spam", never "SPAM". The former refers to > unsolicited bulk email, the latter refers to a Hormel product.
Correct. My apologies to Hormel. > Second, 99% of the people doing anti-spam work are quite incompetent. This is true. That's why I expect everybody to outsource to the few people who aren't incompetent -- Postini, Google, etc. There are a few organizations that can do competent spam filtering in-house, but users are now spoiled with their zero-spam public email folders. It's better now than it was, even though the war is nastier and more expensive. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
