University Capitulates, Switches Off Spam Filters

Heraklit writes "As reported on German news site Heise, the system administrators of the Technical University of Braunschweig have temporarily given up the fight against spam. Because of the legal obligation to deliver all mail and of the delay time exceeding critical 5 days(!), they decided to switch off all filter mechanisms. Before, the 20 servers dedicated to processing e-mail alone had been breaking down under a load of 100000 unprocessed mail messages, ca. 98% of which had been spam or viruses. ... A similar e-mail jam occurred recently at the IT central of the German Federal Government. Is this the beginning of the end of e-mail?" (The Fish may be useful.)

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Is this the beginning of the end of e-mail?

[Anonymous Coward]

Like all questions posed in Slashdot's blurbs, the answer is NO! This is one university we are talking about. Count them: one. Hope that answers your question. Bye now.

Sayings that apply

[grasshoppa]

Throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Fucking retarded
Cut off your nose to spite your face ( which always seemed somehow wrong to me... )
Fucking retarded.

Now, I'm not an admin on their campus ( which is a damn shame for them ), but talk about being just this side of the shortbus. ( Note that I read the bable, but ended up even more confused that simply trying my hand at it without it ). My pathetic little email server ( pII233, 128megs of ram, qmail with qmailscanner, clamscan and spamassassin ), is able to process your standard piece of spam in about 1 second. Approx. Now, I don't know what software they were using, but I'd be willing to hazard it was exchange.

All this just goes to show one thing: GERMANS LOVE DAVID HASSLEHOFF.