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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. SpamBayes? by opusman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems like a glaring ommission.

    1. Re:SpamBayes? by snorklewacker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Er, the glaring omission would be any mention of the effectiveness of any of these products. Am I not clicking on the right links? Because I'm seeing less than a page worth of review for each product, that seems to consist of installing it, clicking around the admin interface, then going on to the next product. It doesn't appear that they actually used the products they were reviewing!

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  2. Yawn - No OSS by OnceWas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where are the OSS products? No Spamassassin?

    Some review...

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  3. SpamAssassin by AnotherFreakboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder why they didn't mention SpamAssassin. Open Source solutions will never gain the market share they deserve if media never gives them the attention they deserve. And the media will never give them attention until they get market share. It's a deadly cycle. Note: Open Source does not inherently make a product worthy of market share.

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    1. Re:SpamAssassin by RealAlaskan · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Open Source solutions will never gain the market share they deserve if media never gives them the attention they deserve. And the media will never give them attention until they get market share.

      How about:

      ``Open Source solutions will never gain the market share they deserve if media never gives them the attention they deserve. And the media will never give them attention until they [the Open Source solutions] start spending big bucks advertising with the media''.

      No chicken-and-egg stuff here: I would bet that ZDNet is following thier long-standing policy of reward^H^H^H^Hviewing their advertisers' products.

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  4. SpamBayes... by John+Miles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... unlike the other products reviewed, doesn't advertise on ZDNet.

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