Comments on: Project Pages Launched http://www.theosquest.com/2006/11/27/project-pages-launched/ A Frustrating Journey Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:56:55 +0000 By: Administrator http://www.theosquest.com/2006/11/27/project-pages-launched/#comment-10 Administrator Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:27:31 +0000 http://theosquest.newbery.us/2006/11/27/project-pages-launched/#comment-10 Mike, thanks for the info. Since I've used the forwarding service for years and am curious how the different providers and clients handle the forwarding. But I will keep this in mind and not compare the forwarded e-mail results to the direct results. -Ray Mike, thanks for the info.

Since I’ve used the forwarding service for years and am curious how the different providers and clients handle the forwarding. But I will keep this in mind and not compare the forwarded e-mail results to the direct results.

-Ray

]]> By: Mike http://www.theosquest.com/2006/11/27/project-pages-launched/#comment-9 Mike Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:49:06 +0000 http://theosquest.newbery.us/2006/11/27/project-pages-launched/#comment-9 A bit of friendly advice, testing spam filters by using a forwarding service is going to give you inacurate results. Large providers like yahoo and aol use reputation based systems and stop most spam based on it's source. Using the forwarding service will cause a different filtering response than if the server that sent it to your forwarding account had tried to send it straight to aol or yahoo. Also, since forwarded mail tends to cause problems with reputation based filtering, they also filter mail that they think is coming from forwarding services differently. If what you are trying to do is test how well they filter forwarded mail, then your method is fine. If you are trying to test their filtering overall, then your results will be off the mark. A bit of friendly advice, testing spam filters by using a forwarding service is going to give you inacurate results.

Large providers like yahoo and aol use reputation based systems and stop most spam based on it’s source. Using the forwarding service will cause a different filtering response than if the server that sent it to your forwarding account had tried to send it straight to aol or yahoo.

Also, since forwarded mail tends to cause problems with reputation based filtering, they also filter mail that they think is coming from forwarding services differently.

If what you are trying to do is test how well they filter forwarded mail, then your method is fine. If you are trying to test their filtering overall, then your results will be off the mark.

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