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I don’t understand people declare the spam problem solved.

I have had false positives with every single spam filter I have tried. This is unacceptable when running a business, and if we manually have to double-check hundreds of spams each day, what is the point of the filter?

Additionally we spend hours each week working with users who do not receive our emails because of spam filters unknown to them (many believe the fault is ours).

It is 2010 and spam is still a major problem.




> if we manually have to double-check hundreds of spams each day, what is the point of the filter?

It's faster to scan a list of subject lines and senders than to look at the contents of an email, which is faster than actually deleting it. So verifying that the spam filter sorted your emails correctly is faster than sorting every message yourself.




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