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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:21:55 +0200
From:      Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   OT - (was Re: mx2.freebsd.org in SORBS, AGAIN!)
Message-ID:  <20050215142155.53b83200@apircalabu.dsd.ro>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEGNFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <20050215121454.2be41735@apircalabu.dsd.ro> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEGNFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:58:01 -0800
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:

> Once you can figure out how to program the FreeBSD mailservers to
> determine exactly which incoming message is spam that needs to be
> dropped, and
> which is a legitimate message that is just perhaps misspelled and
> needs to be returned to the sender, your life wouldn't be worth a
> plugged nickel because every spammer on the face of the Earth would
> be gunning for you. ;-)

Well :) let's put it in terms of cost: what's the cost of losing a
misspelled legitimate mail vs. the cost of bouncing ALL misspelled
mails which include virii and spam? This is quite a dilema, but I tend
to reduce the costs by dropping few legitimate mails instead of bouncing
them together with many other bad ones.

-- 
Adrian Pircalabu

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