Re: Verizon Mail Problems - part 1 -

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 mail-return@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Verizon faces lawsuit over email blocking
...
> According to Vincenzo, spam complaints come from spammers
> themselves. This sits at odds with our own correspondence from
> Verizon subscribers.

As an experienced sysadmin I can tell you that Verizon is simply
incompetent, and will hopefully lose their shirts in court. (Oh
wait, is this one of those frivolous lawsuits Bush wants to
eliminate?)

I've done 100,000 email/day servers. That was 4 yrs ago, I suppose
it's up to 1M/day today. It's work, but that's why they take your
money, right?

Maybe spamassassin doesn't scale, but our mail server delivers to
user inboxes no more than 5 - 10 spam per day, out of the
thousands it receives. I get far, far less spam today than I did
in 1998.

My guess is, Verizon would rather spend the money in court and the
press than spend it on mailservers and good sysadmins for its
customers.

Apparently my friends who use it say Earthlink is well run and
filters spam well. Not an endorsement, I don't use them.

AMC content: I'm really getting worried for the survival of the
AMC list.


tom jennings