alex@yuriev.com [12/10/04 13:16 -0400]:
If I, and my little 7-man company, can afford to have me solve the problem on our end, why the heck can't you do the same?
You can do it because you are a 7-man company. So can I. However, companies the size of Sprint cannot do it.
Most filtering that I've seen (email, router, whatever) that just works great for a 7 man company will not work when you serve several million users, that's a fact. One false positive report per week from 7 users. How many per week - or per day - when you have 40 million users, is a question that gets answered real fast. A lot of the bad filtering (or lack of filtering, for that matter) decisions I've seen at large network providers and ISPs is generally where they are also unresponsive to their users and to the internet community that reports stuff to them (quite a few places I could name where most role accounts seem to funnel straight to /dev/null) srs