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Trustic Anti-Spam Service To Close

Posted by simoniker on from the people-can't-be-trusted? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I recently received an email from the anti-spam service Trustic saying: "We have decided to close the Trustic service. We have determined that the system as it currently is designed will not achieve the level of accuracy that we require, and an inaccurate system is worse than no system."" We covered Trustic's anti-spam service, which billed itself as "a community-based block list that prevents untrusted servers from sending spam", as recently as a couple of weeks ago.

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  1. One can dream! by borgdows · · Score: 5, Funny

    I recently received an email from Microsoft saying:
    "We have decided to stop distributing Windows. We have determined that the system as it currently is designed will not achieve the level of reliability and security that we require, and an unreliable and insecure system is worse than a non-MS system like Linux or MacOSX."

  2. Re:Bad Philosophy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I think any blocking is better than no blocking.

    Then block all mail from odd-numbered IP addresses. A full half of all spam comes from those addresses!

    The only 'bad' thing is false-positives.

    Oops!

    If you lower your blocking to prevernt false-positives, you still have a service that is desired even if you don't catch them all...

    Ah, change it to only block prime-numbered IP addresses. Much fewer false-positives, and you are still blocking some spam.

    Seriously, I'm really impressed that Trustic had the ethics to back off when they determined that the system didn't work. I hope they'll be back with a better system.

  3. Re:Bad Philosophy by kmak · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree.

    This reminds me of a story:
    A guy was speeding along many others along a highway. He was later pulled over by a policeman. The guy cracked, "But everyone was speeding, why did you get me?" The police then asked, "Have you ever gone fishing?" "Sure.." "Have you ever caught them all?"

    --

    I'm not the devil.. just his advocate.
  4. Just needed more customers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they had only had more customers, I'm sure they could have held on longer.

    If only they had found a quick, easy, inexpensive way to solicit hundreds of thousands of new customers using the Internet they could have stayed alive!

  5. Ironic by Root+Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alas, it could not even filter out their own mass email...