Spamfilters do sometimes more badly then good

Many businesses install so-called spamfilters that in our mailbox the chaff of the wheat separate must. By three-quarters of the internet users has such filter however also once in a while 'good' e-mail blocked.

This appeared examine organized from an online to the use of e-mail and spam on office, that socraweb together with Sorrow Business Strategies.

The section office worker receives daily between the ten and fifty e-mails. The share of the spammessages differs however strongly. By a third of the office co-workers lies the number spammessages on less then 10 per cent of the goods received e-mails. On the other hand that stands comes out at a quarter of the office co-workers the share spam above the fifty per cent.

Two on the three businesses uses to hold meanwhile spamfilters unwanted messages against or off to suns. Such filter works then on the desktop of the individual users or somewhere on a central serve.

Sometimes this filters do however more badly then good. As said has more than 75 per cent of the internet users already once to make had with coming in e-mail that through the filter undeserved as spam became ingeschat. By three on the ten users went through here important messages lost.

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Technology on self is not e-mail enough round good of bad to distinguish; the user can hold it best an eye in the sail.

“Spamfilters become town strand started”, means Muriel Van Craenenbroeck that is by Digipoint responsible for the applications around e-mail marketing. “As a result of recent attacks of computer viruses take IT-divisions often no risks more.”

Also by the sending of e-mails, the spamfilter demands sometimes its top. Almost the half of the internet users, as from the study appeared, wanted to be or are found her sent e-mails in the spamfilter of the receiver.

Many specialists in e-mailmarketing launched about that all a spamcheck-position: they take the legal reclamemail of their customers under the magnifying glass and calculate the chance that that e-mail through most used spamfilters blocked will become.

Christophe Reynaert of protections business MessageLabs: “The technology spam to fight is yet freely young and spammers become constantly more creative. Only a combination of technologies can fight spam, will can become already the problem never totally uitgeroeid.”