On 07/29/2014 09:37 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The commercial RBL's let spam through also. As to whether they let as
much spam through as, say, spamcops RBL, I'll let others argue that
point. But that is NOT the issue I raised in the beginning. The issue
is this automatic assumption that companies like Gmail and
Hotmail/MSN/Live/Microsoft/365/whatever-the-name-o-the-week-they-call-themselves
all have SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER spam filtering than
Spamassassin+free/public RBLs+some judicious blacklists. This
assumption is apparently based on the notion bigger is better, not the
notion that it's not the size of the wand but the magic in it.
This is a perception I'm seeing some responders to this thread echo! I
have to ask you if you think those guys are better why are you even
using Spamassassin at all? Just throw in the towel and find something
else to do, you don't even have faith in your own mailserver.
They're not better, they're just cheaper.
As long as I can detect all the spam THEY throw at me, I don't consider
them any better than anybody else, using a nicely customized sA setup.
Give the amount of money they throw at subsidizing their services, we
all know how it paysback. Thankfully there' a whole lot of clients who
don't buy that.
