> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:50:59 +1300, you wrote:
>
> >> Please feel free to correct me, but I understood that those who were
> >> on XTRA received free national traffic if on Jetstarter, how if this
> >> is correct could email from their servers cost you?? Of for that
> >> matter email from any New Zealand servers???
> >>
> >> Of course the standard disclaimer, I might be wrong :)
> >
> >Because Xtra make decisions on what is and is not spam and change
> >my mail before I get it I do not use their system for mail. I use my
> >own domain and that is stored on a server in the US.
> >
> >Chrissy.
>
> They why not have all your email forwarded to an xtra account, this I
> believe would solve some of your problem with potential over-running
> your 5GB dsl cap.

No it would not cos it would mean that I give away any control of my mail
and allow someone else to decide what is legit mail and what it not. There
is heaps of research into the effectiveness of generic spam and virus filtering
and it comes up with about 10 to 20% false positives - i.e., they delete 10-20%
of the mail that people want.

It does not affect the main problem and that is that this much mail is being
generated that is unwanted. The latest figures for SPAM are about 40% of
all e-mails and there are 31 billion e-mails a day sent. That is 12 billion SPAM
a day - add to that the viruses that are sent and you see that the problem needs
a solution other than the end user saying "it was filtered before I got it so it is
not a problem".

Chrissy.

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