Isn't that a problem in itself? I'm all for spam reduction, but should the ISP be filtering your mail & potentially striking false positives?
BTW - is annoys me that they plan on actually _charging_ for this service on certain plans. Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 9:17 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT ISP Spam Filters (was: I love this new worm etc) > > > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:54, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > I got a spam letter from Paradise yesterday saying that they are > > putting a > > spam and virus filter in place for the paradise mailboxes. > So unwanted emails > > will get removed before transmission to us. > > TelstraClear have just announced the same. > > > It would be interesting to see how well it works. > > I wonder how many real emails will be bounced in the process. > > > They say it will start on Sept 8th. > > About the same for TelstraClear. Free until the end of the > year then a charge per mailbox. > > For my money, spamassassin does such a good that I really > don't care what they do so long as they let all my real email through. > -- > Rob Stockley > Manawatu > New Zealand > > An avid user of Linux > Visit http://www.linux.org > >
