(65 quotes found)
“While the volume of spam reaching AOL email inboxes has remained at low levels compared to it's height in late 2003, the spam that's out there is more insidious, crafty, devious, and dangerous than ever.”
Charles Stiles
“McAfee Secure Messaging Gateway with the anti-spam module effectively blocked 97% of spam from the test suite to achieve the Checkmark PREMIUM certification standard -- a very high percentage considering that the test was conducted under real-world conditions with streams of live mail and spam going to the product. Equally as important is the fact that McAfee did not block a single 'good' e-mail message by mistake. There were no false-positives.”
Chris Thomas
“What often is missed with social irritants like spam and telemarketing is that they are a product of privacy violations, ... You can try to marginalize spam, but it is inextricably linked to fraudulent practices. Addressing spam will get at the other issues that they claim to be important.”
Chris Hoofnagle
“Given what I know of spam, [filtering won't] be very effective in reliably differentiating types of spam, without requiring large amounts of manual intervention,”
Chris Lewis
“Tougher sentences being dished out are clearly making spammers feel the heat. However, spam is clearly not a thing of the past. E-mail users worldwide are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages, and, two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.”
Brett Myroff
“This isn't really an anti-spam measure as much as a 'pay to speak' e-mail measure.”
Cindy Cohn
“Some feel the perception of spam as an annoyance has decreased because of filters and because people are getting used to it. But the bad news is that spam is changing from an annoyance into something actually very dangerous.”
Claudia Sarrocco
“Spam has shifted from basement amateurs to hard core criminal enterprises. True criminals have started getting into the spam game.”
“The solution worked, but it was a one-size-fits-all spam filter. If a customer felt that their mail was being filtered too aggressively or not aggressively enough, we couldn't make changes without affecting every other customer.”
Clayton Weise
“Mirapoint's multi-layered approach to spam, including its unique MailHurdle technology, was the ideal solution for Jayman's spam problem. By blocking spam at the edge of the network, then filtering for content, Mirapoint demonstrated high accuracy rates -- ensuring executives aren't spending hours each day searching for 'lost' email. The simplicity of an appliance with robust user controls and high accuracy rates made the switch to Mirapoint nearly invisible to end-users. All they noticed was better email.”
Craig Richardson
