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11 Anti-spam Products Tested

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the filter-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When we achieve world peace, that's when we'll get the perfect anti-spam solution. In the meantime, ZDNet has a comprehensive review of eleven of the latest anti-spam products including solutions from BitDefender, Clearswift, CA eTrust, GFI, IronPort, MailGuard, McAfee, MessageLabs, NetIQ, Network Box and Symantec Brightmail."

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  1. but I WANT spam... by Vthornheart · · Score: 2, Funny

    you insensitive clod!

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    -Vendal Thornheart
    1. Re:but I WANT spam... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course you do. It's the only time someone mentions "penis" to you without breaking into fits of laughter :-)

  2. BOFH-grade products. by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > eleven of the latest anti-spam products including solutions from BitDefender, Clearswift, CA eTrust, GFI, IronPort, MailGuard, McAfee, MessageLabs, NetIQ, Network Box and Symantec Brightmail.

    How can this list be considered even remotely complete? What about the personalized Louisville Slugger, the noble etherkiller and (for your Tier 1 types who work in volume) the 1200-bung-per-hour-rated Jarvis Sow Bung Dropper?

    Oh, wait, this is a review of anti-spam products, not anti-spammer products. Never mind.

  3. What we really want to see: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    11 Anti-spammer Products Tested

  4. Re:Mod parent up by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Funny

    well.. it's a SPECIAL REPORT.. you know like special olympics(no offence to the disabled).

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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  5. Literally exploded, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    From TFA:

    Since then the market has literally exploded -- from four or five popular applications on the market last year to a submission of no less than 11 for this review.

    It literally exploded? Wow, what a sight that must have been! I can just imagine all the software vendors sitting at booths in a flea-market sort of place, when all of the sudden-- BOOOM! The place goes up like a chinese firecracker, turning half of Symantec's marketing department into a bunch of crispy critters. Kids are orphaned, families are destroyed...

    What's that? You mean it didn't actually blow up? So it didn't literally explode, then? I see.

    Somebody needs to find the editor that let that article slip through and literally beat him until he's comatose.

  6. Re:SpamBayes? by Jason+Mark · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well they make up for not testing effectiveness by this fun little line: Please note that these decisions were not based on accuracy testing. Duh! I imagine they test stereo systems without audio output and simply look at the box and the colors of the LCD?