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Originally Posted by cookie_365
Problem is, no computer algorithm can ever be as good at deciding what's spam & whats not. And how many false positives is acceptable? 1%? 5%? 0%? It all depends on the person, the value of the content of the messages, the chances the content is similar to spam messages blah blah blah.
If you think about how long it takes for your own Outlook/Mailwasher/whatever rules to sort out what's (probably) spam & what isn't, then its probably only a few seconds a day for most people. Any NTL side spam filtering is unlikely to be better at spotting what's spam than your own personal rules,<snip>
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We use spam filtering at work, and as I understand it, the extra load on the server is a small percentage of the load from running the email service, and is considered a small price to pay for the loss of problems due to spam.
On the other side of that, we cater for about 25000 users, not the millions that NTL cater for.