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Hotmail's Spam Filter: The Best In the Business?

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-the-flaming-begin dept.

Barence writes "Microsoft claims an "independent" report proves it has the best spam protection in the industry — an argument deconstructed by PC Pro. 'Our own internal metrics, customer feedback, and even a recent third-party report confirms that no mail service offers better protection than Hotmail,' Microsoft's Dick Craddock wrote in a Windows Live blog post earlier this week."

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  1. Easy to be the best by shuz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you are the source.

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    1. Re:Easy to be the best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      True.

      Where I work, a small 10K student college, the majority of spam that we see originates from either hotmail or yahoo servers (from received headers). Yahoo even signs the spam coming from their servers).

      Majority of spam links point to "live" urls (another [apparently poorly managed] M$ asset.

      Google seems to know how to control their infrastructure. Although a lot of reply address go to gmail accounts.

  2. I have to say... by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google, for all its email faults, (and it has some real doozies -- some of them drive me batty) hasn't thrown a good email into spam in many months. I probably see an actual spam in the inbox perhaps once a week, which I delight in marking as spam to help other gmail users. That's pretty darned good; I compulsively check both the inbox and the spambox, and I am *extremely* satisfied with Google's ability to discriminate.

    I haven't used Hotmail in years, so it's impossible for me to say they're better or worse, but I am dead certain that Google is "good enough" here.

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