[funsec] Im lovin google spam filter

[Joel Esler]

Agreed.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Alex Eckelberry
<AlexE at sunbelt-software.com>wrote:

> Odd.  I have had virtually zero FPs and I don't get any crap in my inbox.
> That, to me, is a pretty fair test of a spam filter.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org] On
> Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 5:39 AM
> To: funsec
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Im lovin google spam filter
>
>
> Google's anti-spam implementation merits no more than a "D" grade; it makes
> a number of obvious, well-known design and implementation errors, the false
> positive rate is appallingly high, and then there's the matter of *outbound*
> filtering, which is always far more important than inbound.
>
> Of course, this still puts it far ahead of Yahoo and Hotmail, which earn an
> "F" only because "Z" is not an available grade.
>
> ---rsk
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