Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 15, 2003 04:36 PM
Ever wonder how the spam deleters that affect your pop3 mailbox directly work?
They DOWNLOAD the message, determine if it's spam, and if so send the "Delete" command to the pop server.
So you're not saving any time/bandwidth/etc using them.
The only exception is a filter that works soley on headers, in which case, the utilty would only have to d/l the headers. Problem isheaders alone are not enough to determine spammage anymore.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 15, 2003 04:36 PMThey DOWNLOAD the message, determine if it's spam, and if so send the "Delete" command to the pop server.
So you're not saving any time/bandwidth/etc using them.
The only exception is a filter that works soley on headers, in which case, the utilty would only have to d/l the headers. Problem isheaders alone are not enough to determine spammage anymore.
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