So, using the 2.5% legit mail ratio, that means you block 20,000,000 legit messages to your users every day
easy solution: don't use that ratio
Another way to view that glass is "half full":
AOL blocked 780,000,000 SPAM msgs to AOL's users, aka, "true positives".
What do you think costs AOL more $$$: receiving and delivering 780M TPs, or blocking 800M including a few million FPs?
This is called a dilemma, and it's a hard one, esp when many $M are in play.
It was in the press that AOL had 8 million complaints from their $$subscribers about spam. How much do you think it costs handle 8 million complaints??
If AOL did nothing about spam, how much $$$ would they lose when subscribers go somewhere else where spam was apparently handled better?
Len
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