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Re: Best Email Time

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Dec 5 11:06:53 2006

Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:24:54 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "William Allen Simpson" <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45758CBE.4080308@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 12/5/06, William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The "study" says that "nearly 20 percent of email does not get delivered to
> the inbox as intended, largely because it gets mistaken as spam."
>
> That's utter hogwash.  My Mail Mailguard statistics this year show that for
> me personally, only 0.1% of messages are false positives!  Systemwide,
> it's only 0.6%!
>

Depends on -

1. How large your network is (how many millions of mailboxes)

2. How you define spam [that study probably defines anything that's
can-spam compliant as non-spam?  haven't checked]

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