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Re: 30% loss : But who made the ISPs our big brother?
Posted By: Cheryl Gonzalez In Response To: Re: 30% loss : But who made the ISPs our big brother? (Philip Allen)
Date: Friday, 9 April 2004, at 7:23 p.m.
> I have been using a small local ISP for over a year now they don't have
> all the bells and whistles as the other providers
> like AOL but they do have a spam filter.The thing I like about them is
> that
> they let you set your filter settings and once a week they send me an
> to let me know how many spam messages their filters caught with the link
> so I can read them or check for messages that may have been accidentally
> caught.
> Are the larger ISP's doing this? Is it feasible for them to do this?Earthlink subscribes to BrightMail which catches the spam in a different folder where you can click on the Known spam...scan subject lines or Suspect Email where they suspect it's spam. Any of the ISP's could add that and then delivery would be higher for everyone because you have up to 10 days to check the folder or it self-cleans.
I find that very FEW legit emails get in my known spam...and I get at least 400 of those a day...thanks to *CAN* Spam...which I believe allows it now instead of the meaning others have that it is suppose to be Canned as in garbage! I read the act and feel it gives a license to spam IF procedures are followed...BOO! Although spammers never follow procedures...but I have seen more marketers jump on spam now that procedures have been set.
The Suspect email is nice because until they get in my address book...they sit over there (again 10 days to self-clean) but I find it is just spam mostly!
So to answer your question...yes it is feasible for any large ISP, (earthlink is #2 or 3) unfortunately, most prefer to set their own filters or go with the black lists that have been set-up online. My domain email uses the internet filtering and I keep asking my host to check out BrightMail because I know some business email never gets to me! I eventually get the phone call :-(
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