Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:21:55 +0200 From: Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT - (was Re: mx2.freebsd.org in SORBS, AGAIN!) Message-ID: <20050215142155.53b83200@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEGNFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20050215121454.2be41735@apircalabu.dsd.ro> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEGNFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:58:01 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > Once you can figure out how to program the FreeBSD mailservers to > determine exactly which incoming message is spam that needs to be > dropped, and > which is a legitimate message that is just perhaps misspelled and > needs to be returned to the sender, your life wouldn't be worth a > plugged nickel because every spammer on the face of the Earth would > be gunning for you. ;-) Well :) let's put it in terms of cost: what's the cost of losing a misspelled legitimate mail vs. the cost of bouncing ALL misspelled mails which include virii and spam? This is quite a dilema, but I tend to reduce the costs by dropping few legitimate mails instead of bouncing them together with many other bad ones. -- Adrian Pircalabu Public KeyID = 0x04329F5E -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/
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