On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Joel M Snyder wrote: >> 2) Your reply to Dave's post is not useful. It's not even useful if >> you consider it pure hyperbole for effect. There are many ways to >> reduce spam, the "single most effective" does not stop even 50%. > > Actually, that's not true. I don't want to get into an argument about > "single most effective," but I can guarantee that using a good reputation > service will block more than 50% of the incoming spam to your network. The > leading ones normally hit the 80% range.
A good reputation service is not using a single criteria. But you didn't want to get into an argument, and I agree it's not worth arguing over. The point was, trying to imply that not using DUL would result in "quadrillions" more spam is not useful. And I stand behind that. -- TTFN, patrick
