[SpamCop-List] Re: false positives on bl.spamcop.net renders it useless

[Steven Maesslein]

On 30 Jan 2006 06:28:16 -0600, Larry Kilgallen coughed into spamcop and 
left this in <3CjMtooSbUaz at eisner.encompasserve.org>:

>> I was unaware of this, and I think it's a poor approach to the problem 
>> if you *start* with CPU-intensive methods instead of falling back on 
>> them when all other CPU-light methods fail.
>
> Your reasoning only holds if CPU time is the dearest resource.

Processing is usually the *longest* step, and time is money. Therefore, 
CPU-intensive operations such as feeding a mail through SpamAssassin 
*are* usually the dearest resource.

-- 
Steve

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