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Originally Posted by Pem
Who  - not the most well known of alternatives - but yes - there are many alternative e-mail providers - and no-one could say NTL's e-mail is the most reliable at the moment. |
Pretty well known of globally.
http://www.brightmail.com/
Highest Accuracy 99.9999%
False positives (messages incorrectly identified as spam) cause users to lose faith in spam blocking. From day one, Brightmail has had an unwavering commitment to protecting legitimate mail. Many Brightmail customers feel comfortable deleting spam without review.
- Automated and manual safeguards
- Support for false positive submissions
- Review (by a Brightmail technician) of every false positive
- Corrected rules deployed globally within minutes
- Only introduces a new technology after it has passed rigorous accuracy standards
"Brightmail Anti-Spam's false-positive score speaks for itself. If you want to make sure that important messages get through to your employees, BAS is the best answer we know of."
††PC Magazine, 11/11/03
"Brightmail caught the highest percentage of spam and had the lowest false-positive rate of any of the products tested."
††InfoWorld, 11/17/03
http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/announ...4-01-28a.shtml
http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/faq/spamfiltering.shtml
How accurate is this email filtering service?
No filtering system is 100% effective, and there is a very small chance (Brightmail suggest it is less than one in million) that a non-spam email will trigger a filtering rule by mistake. However, if your correspondents are sending email via a system that has been flagged as generating nothing but spam then it may be blocked as well. If legitimate email is being blocked then the sender should then receive a "bounce" message. In the most unlikely event that your correspondents have any problems then please send the details of this to us at
helpdesk@demon.net so that we can investigate and adjust as necessary.
You may still see a small amount of incoming spam. If your address is targeted before Brightmail spots the spam run (once one of their dummy addresses is hit they usually get rules in place within a few minutes) then you'll be unlucky enough to receive some spam. However, overall, THUS believes that this is a very effective spam filtering system and recommends customers use it to reduce the volume of unsolicited email.