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 client (all of which feed their spam filters on a global basis), it's often suprising to see some of the spammy garbage they miss. The need for effective virus filtering for EarthLink is very evident though--the virus spewage from them is awful. They were using a homespun spam filtering service (inherited from the now-borg'd Mindspring) that allowed them greater control over the rulesets and thus enabled some control over some viruses. But EarthLink suffers from that perennial corporate anxiety of "there's no way something could work *that* well if we're not paying millions of dollars for it"--thus in-house projects or open source developments like spamassassin -are sadly never really considered as a viable filtering option.
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 my whitelist but I'm too interested in > seeing what score they're going to rack up next). Unfortunately I got > nine copies of one of those Brightmail missed, so on pure volume it's > batting less than 50%. > > The ISP advertises their "Spam Detector" as protecting you against > viruses, too, but it's zero-for-four on stopping those, so far. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > No, I will not fix your computer. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
