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Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org)

Posted by timothy on from the lie-back-and-think-of-england dept.

broswell writes: For years we used Postini for spam filtering. Google bought Postini in 2007, operated it for 5 years and then began shutting it down. Then we moved to MX Logic. McAfee bought MX Logic, and McAfee was purchased by Intel. Now Intel is shutting down the service. Neither company chose to raise prices, or spin off the division. Anyone want to speculate on the reasons?

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  1. Private e-mail servers are obsolete? by marciot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because pretty much everyone uses gmail, yahoo, Office365 or some other mail service which already does spam filtering. The only person in recent history that I know of running a private e-mail server was Hillary Clinton and see how much good it did her...

  2. Labor costs by tgibson · · Score: 4, Funny

    It isn't profitable. It's enormously expensive to pay so many employees to read EACH AND EVERY email to determine if it's spam.

  3. Re: Nobody is buying email software anymore by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    So anybody could get it for free except people like Abraham and Moses?