From: Greg Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But I must say, some people on the list appear to be giving their own > personal opinion as if they are only referring to their own email inbox, > without regard to users on their system. Maybe they are not really > administrators of multi-user systems, I don't know. If they are > administrating large systems I would have to wonder what secret lists they > had developed. > > But if you do manage multiple users accounts, you have to provide industry > standard anti-spam protection without blocking on your own definition of > "spam". Now if you are only talking your own email box, you can define > every email except emails from your mom as spam, not much of anyone would > give a hoot what you block in your own inbox.
The responses you get depend on the questions you ask. If you ask "Is this spam?", you will generally get personal opinions. These opinions may be quite different from the policies implemented by the corporate mail servers. I my case, I have a very strict personal view of spam. However, most of my email clients are salesmen, so I have to be careful of what criteria I use for spam. In fact, my server does not block spam at all for most accounts. It simply tags it and then the individual users can decide for themselves what to do with the tagged emails. There is also the limitation of what spam blockers can do. A one-shot hand-typed email with a real From address and no obfuscation would probably not be caught by SA unless it is full of sales buzzwords and other spam-sign. Bowie
