Techie :: Techno ::: April 2004 Archives

As I missed running linux on my desktop I finally decided this evening to take the plunge and load it onto my laptop. Hardware used: - Dell Latitude - PIII 850 My experience with this installation was horrendous, but that was more the laptop's fault than Mandrake's. I had been given copies of the Mandrake install CDs by a friend a few months back. If I loaded them on my desktop machine there were no issues, however the laptop cd-rom drive did not like them. After wasting what seemed to be an eternity trying to get the laptop to boot from the CD I finally decided to scrap that idea completely. I opted for a network install.

Once you start offering email filtering people expect it to work 100% of the time and are very unforgiving when they get one or two emails that they shouldn't have. The biggest issue facing anybody offering professional email filtering is balancing the "spam" vs. "ham" (desired email). A lot of email marketing, albeit desired by the recipient, can be easily qualified as "spam" due to badly formed mail headers, bad HTML and other elements. Choosing the threshold to block mail is always going to be a moot point. Anybody who is involved with mail filtering will appreciate this. No matter what you do there will always be a small number of clients who are not happy with the fact that they receive 2 spam emails a day, while they used to receive 100.