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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by mike-cardwell on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @08:44AM (#3210669)
We're talking about the global spam problem, not your localised end user spam problem. Even if gmails spam filter was perfect and stopped all spam (impossible), they'd still have a problem because they'd be using vast amounts of human and computing resources to do it.
Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by Jach on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:05AM (#3210730)
Maybe at first, but I think the GP's idea is more generally to make sending spam not a viable way of making money. If end users never see spam and spam profits drop from 0.2% of email addresses or whatever they're at now to 0.000000000002% then other methods to make money will be used.
Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by mike-cardwell on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:15AM (#3210764)
You simply can not get that sort of accuracy without vastly increasing the number of false positives.
Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by simonbrown on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:01AM (#3210717)
If it was perfect, spammers would no longer have an incentive.
Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by mike-cardwell on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:06AM (#3210732)
I already specified that perfection is impossible. Even if every email is routed via a human filter instead of a computer filter, there would still be mistakes.

If a spammer can't get a message through, they will keep tweaking it until they succeed.

If even 999 out of 1000 spams are blocked, they'll still keep firing.

Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by mseebach on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:25AM (#3210805)
The perfect is the enemy of the practical.