Do ISP Server Side Email Filters Serve You?

Spam, Spam, Spam the bane of all our inboxes (next to foistware and spyware of course). Well now we have our kind-heated ISP giving us "server side" anti-spam programs saving us the trouble of having to sort through hundreds of discount Viagara pills and too good to be true stock options. But don't be so sure.

As this article from Smart Computing tells us,

ISPs use antispam applications not so much to benefit their customers as to benefit themselves because these applications reduce the flow of email transmitting through the ISPs' servers

Unfortunately even though ISP server-side filters mean well and strive for 100% accuracy (to their benefit), SC has found that only 80% is caught by these well intentioned ISP's.

Read on.....