Re: [Asrg] [ASRG] SMTP pull anyone?

Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org> Mon, 17 August 2009 16:24 UTC

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On 8/17/09 7:44 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:23:36PM +0530, Ravi shankar wrote:
>> Today's model is no different from what i have suggested in that they deploy
>> costly anti-spam solutions, which utilise probably 10 fold resource
>> than what this solution will use.
>
> If they are costly, and if they use so many resources, then they're not
> very good solutions.  It's not difficult at all to construct very cheap,
> very efficient anti-spam solutions which exhibit good performance
> characteristics (that is: low FP, low FN, no backscatter, no spamming,
> no special MUA/MTA software needed, etc.)
>
> The fact that some (many?) people choose not to avail themselves of these
> methods is unfortunate, but doesn't invalidate the methods.

Rich,

Could you provide a brief outline regarding what constitutes an 
efficient anti-spam solution?

-Doug