At 12:33 AM -0700 6/16/00, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Brightmail is odd. I've never gotten a particularly good vibe from them.
>I'm in general very leery of commercial filtering services because in
>order to compete commercially they're pretty much out of necessity keeping
>their precise techniques secret,
They describe their techniques in detail on their web site. See
<http://www.brightmail.com/isp/anti-spam/how/>.
> and that opens up more false positive
>risks and other related problems than I'd be comfortable with.
Brightmail puts all trapped spam in an easily-accessible folder so
that the user (an end user or a sysadmin) can go through and look for
false positives.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
