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Are Spam Blockers Too Strict? 226

Myrte writes "Wired.com has a long piece on whether spam blockers are blocking wanted messages." From the article: "For years, e-mail users complained that torrents of unwanted messages clogged their inboxes and crimped their productivity. Now, e-mail users, marketers and mailing list operators are more worried that spam filters are blocking out too many wanted messages. AOL isn't the only company to face charges that it improperly blocks legitimate messages. But, as the world's largest ISP for years, it has long borne the brunt of complaints from mass e-mailers over the problem."

Comment Expliot to Patch Time (Score 1) 560

I'm not excusing Firefox for having security vulnerabilities, but you have to look at the fact that Firefox is relatively young and is rapidly growing. IE has had time to work out a lot of the bugs over the years since IE6 went live. How many years has IE6 been around with little or no modifications? There's less chance of introducing a bug because of this, but the browser is nearly featureless compared to Firefox because of it. Which would you rather have?

Secondly, Firefox's exploit to patch time is miniscule compared to Microsoft's. The last exploit that came out had a "fix" within days. Although that fix didn't actually correct the error, but turned off the functionality that was broken. Then again, this is compared to Microsoft which says "don't click on links you don't trust" when a vulnerability comes out, until it comes out with its patch a month or more later. Pick your poison.

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