From: "Mike Simpson" <>
Subject: Spam.
Hi Mike,
Optus archieves the deleted spam messages for a month where you can access
them. I checked on it once and found little on no false posetives. I can't
say I have checked since.
Bruce.
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Thanks for posting your statistics from Optusnet, but how do you know that
> all the messages Optus stopped were Spam?
>
> I am using Outlook 2003 which I have set up to automatically redirect Spam
> to a Junk folder. This works fairly well, but a very small percentage
(less
> than 1 pct) of messages sent to this folder are actually real messages. So
> if Optus' spam remover works to the same tolerances, I would be losing
about
> one message a day, which would be a worry.
>
> I really do think it is safer to select what you wish to reject on your
own
> machine, rather than rely upon someone else's selection of what is/is not
> spam.
>
> Regards, Mike Simpson
> Penrith, NSW
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/ozbirds
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