[Gllug] spamassassin v bogofilter

Richard Huxton dev at archonet.com
Thu Jun 2 10:16:11 UTC 2005


Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Michael Moritz wrote:
> 
>>The other pointis that ISPs couldnt afford to literally do nothing about spam. 
>>The cost would be to high, not talking about the level of user complaints. 
> 
> 
> The cost still hits the ISP even with filtering as the bandwidth has 
> already been used. Instead of cheap disk space to store the spam until 
> it's downloaded by the ISP the ISP that filters implemented expensive 
> servers to do the filtering.

I thought greylisting issued a temporary reject as soon as the 
envelope-sender was known? You still get a connection, but save the 
bandwidth used in the message.

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug




More information about the GLLUG mailing list