[Mimedefang] Off topic: Ethics of deleteing spam

[Dave Buchanan]

I guess it is different for us in a corporate environment but we do the
same as you are doing for our corporate clients...tag and pass...
There for us too much of a chance that a false positive is actually a
contract being sent by a vendor or worse yet a rfp coming in ...

Putting on my isp hat for a minute ...
I know many isps are null routing spam as you say based on the
spamassassin score ... I guess that is what the masses want .... They
get balled up even if they see the stuff.  

Dave Buchanan, MCSE CCNP RHCE 
CTO / Navigator Networks
817 366-3368 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Madill [mailto:amadill at hwy16.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:01 PM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: [Mimedefang] Off topic: Ethics of deleteing spam


We are losing customers to our competitors because of spam.  The 
customer claims that they know someone who uses ISP xyz and 
they get very little spam.  They have to be filtering it.

We currently change the subject to [SPAM?]... or [SPAM!]... 
depending on the score from SpamAssassin and have told our 
lusers how to filter it or delete it with their email client but it
still uses 
bandwidth and it is a hassle for them to set that up.

We would like to just delete it or bounce it but we are worried about 
the ethical and legal issues of doing so.

What is everyone else doing?

-
Alan Madill - Hwy16 Internet
Technical Services
250 567-4200

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