[107912] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Wed Sep 17 17:28:50 2008
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:27:19 -0400
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <48D16E4F.6090808@cox.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 16:53:35 Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
> > Some people would really like email to be as reliable as possible, even
> > if that means they have to wade through a lot of spam.
>
> By what twisted logic can a system where desired email is found when "
> they have to wade through a lot of spam"?
When our spam rate here is 90% (27,000 or more spam per week for 3,000 good
messages) 'wading through spam' translates to 'finding real messages is like
finding a needle in a pr0n haystack'.
It's amazing how many false positives and annoyances I get with greylisting,
though.
