On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 10:01:36PM -0400, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > My DSL ISP (aka "the phone company") now offers Brightmail-based spam
> > filtering. It caught 8 of the 12 spam messages I've received since it
> > was activated (SA caught all 4 of the
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> I have a few users whose dialup ISPs also use Brightmail. They
> commented how Spamassassin works *better* than Brightmail, which seems
> to block legitimate mail. They also mentioned Brightmail offers no way
> to retrieve blocked mail (at least, thei
Heh--that reminds of something Brightmail has been doing--they've been
posting apparently OT posts to various newsgroups with their honeypot
addresses with the intention of getting harvested by spammers. A bit of a
bass ackwards approach to spam fighting-- spamming in order to fight
spam!!
On S
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> My DSL ISP (aka "the phone company") now offers Brightmail-based spam
> filtering. It caught 8 of the 12 spam messages I've received since it
> was activated (SA caught all 4 of the rest, plus an Outpost.com mailer
> that scored 14.5 -- I'd add them to
here's
a lesson that hasn't been learned. Or maybe they don't consider their
bulk advertising as Spam.
-Original Message-
From: Robert Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 5:36 PM
To: Bart Schaefer
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Brightm
EarthLink employs Brightmail too, but they have not purchased the virus
filtering package from them yet. Their spam filtering is ok-but I
would expect it to be better for as much as EarthLink pays for the
service-and considering that Brightmail deploys honeypots for every
network they have as a c
