Probably because releasing said code would make it open for public scrutiny and, thus, being circumvented by millions of spammers out there.
Ballmer's comment in the ref'd article, "And so we have special technology which just filters (spam)" is just seething with the "security through obscurity" mantra of Microsoft.
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Probably because releasing said code would make it open for public scrutiny and, thus, being circumvented by millions of spammers out there. Ballmer's comment in the ref'd article, "And so we have special technology which just filters (spam)" is just seething with the "security through obscurity" mantra of Microsoft.