begin David B Harris quotation: > > Actually, it's a very good spam filter. It, by default, adds headers to > the message (X-Yahoo-FilteredBulk or somesuch). I've received some > fourty thousand mails over my yahoo.ca account; some of them spam. I > have NEVER EVER gotten a false positive from Yahoo's spam > marking/filtering stuff, and it caught about %65 of all spam. That's > pretty god-damned impressive.
Well, first off, 65% sucks. I get a lot more than that with just two anti-spam filters in my sendmail config, osirus and njabl. However, the efficiency of their filter isn't what I'm questioning. They made a decision just a couple of weeks ago to essentially turn themselves into a spam address harvesting service. I can conceive of no other reason for doing that than selling the addresses, especially since the revised terms of service specifically say that they will do so. If they're going to sell the addresses, do you honestly think they're going to filter the mail sent from those customers? If so, why would the customers buy the addresses? The only logical thing they could do would be to NOT filter those customers, and have "you're not filtered" be one of the sales points. -- Shawn McMahon | McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong
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