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Some Anti-Spam Vendors Blocking and Slowing Gmail

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the need-something-more-dire-than-can-spam dept.

fiorenza writes "Google's Gmail (and corporate mail) are being throttled and sometimes blocked by some anti-spam services, including MessageLabs and Antigen. Ars Technica reports that the blocking is a result of the Google CAPTCHA crack, which has allowed a deluge of spam from Gmail's clusters. Most users won't get blocked mail, but Ars confirmed with MessageLabs that Gmail delivery delays are to be expected."

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  1. Re:It's ok though... by anotherone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you seriously just post an unsolicited commercial message in a thread about how unsolicited commercial messages are watering down legitimate communication mediums?

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  2. Re:It's ok though... by teknopurge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then you haven't used Exchange, etc.

    Exchange trumps Gmail easily. No Contest.

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  3. Re:It's ok though... by teknopurge · · Score: 1, Funny

    Commercial?! Psft - it was a viral-green-eco-friendly-lovein message, man!

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  4. Re:It's ok though... by CowboyNealOption · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have yet to see Exchange work well in any environment over a few dozen people; certainly not without investing large amounts of money on duplicate servers and hardware. Included is my favourite Exchange analogy: If the same method that exchange/outlook uses to store email were used in the real world as a paper filing system: Every document is translated into Greek, and the original is burned. Then they are all glued together into one solid block and stuffed into a magic box with a tiny slot, through which you can talk to a little gnome who somehow gets each message for you as needed. Sometimes the gnome gets confused and it takes hours (sometimes days) for him to sort things out; meanwhile he can't find your documents until he is totally finished becoming unconfused again. As an added bonus the gnome costs several thousand dollars and when he dies every few years you need to buy a new gnome. Oh and if the first box gets (arbitrarily) full you have to buy another special gnomebox, which of course costs $$$

  5. Re:It's ok though... by Ucklak · · Score: 2, Funny

    and you certainly haven't used Lotus Notes, which trumps Citadel and Exchange by a wider margin.

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  6. Re:It's ok though... by cleatsupkeep · · Score: 5, Funny

    And YOU definitely haven't used Gmail, which trumps Lotus Notes by a large margin... Oh, wait...

  7. Re:It's ok though... by kitsunewarlock · · Score: 5, Funny

    And you certainly haven't used a telegraph. I only get spam about once every month or so, and I can usually ignore it by about the 15th beep or so.

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  8. Re:It's ok though... by hostyle · · Score: 2, Funny

    I couldn't agree more. Our company builds Exchange servers (single and clusters) for clients ranging from small business to large corporations, and after initial install we rarely have any post installation administration requests. We build our servers, install them, and they happily run for years.

    Perhaps the emails they have sent to report problems / issues are not getting through ... :P

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