Yup, I would love to know the answer to this as well. I am a software developer and I have a slight understanding about the spam problem.
On Saturday 31 January 2009 10:29:34 Petri Laihonen wrote: > Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > I use and recommend Windows because I am able to quickly develop > > productivity software with features that are impossible to develop on > > Linux in a similar amount of time. While spam has not been > > eliminated, I use mail accounts which for all intents and purposes do > > a near 100% job at preventing it from reaching my inbox. So its > > annoyance is of little effect to me. > > While I'm not a programmer, I would still like to have some examples of > this productivity software. > Also, what aspects / features (Excluding "windows only" like features) > make it impossible to develop in Linux within similar amount of time? > > About the spam filtering and such.... I'm fairly sure m$ is using some > open source stuff for that (at least partially). > I wish I would've posted the mail headers and such to the list when I > made that discovery few months back. That would have been interesting > topic.... > Basically, UNO has purchased some mail filtering service from Microsoft, > and the filtering activity is done somewhere off-site. I was studying > the mail headers and such for some reason and few headers indicated that > open source stuff was involved...... While I do not have time to dig > too much, I'll post something I encounter that again. > > Petri > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
