On 12/22/2003 5:31 PM, Louise Bremner wrote:

> Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 12/22/2003 3:29 PM, Louise Bremner wrote:
>>
>>>Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Looking at some of the addresses our honorable customers have here it is
>>>>quite obvious they are old accounts, getting matt and log would be
>>>>impossible these days. They would have to be huge spam traps though?
>>>
>>>
>>>At the time (way back at the start of GOL), spam was unknown.... 
>>>
>>>I gather I would be getting a lot of spam if GOL's own spamtrap didn't
>>>catch it, so I suppose I'll have to decide whether to pay 200yen a month
>>>extra for it when it's no longer free, or give up on this account.
>>
>>I thought the 200 yen a month was for some sort of new spam filtering,
>>in addition to what they are doing now. I mean, the current filtering,
>>which I find quite adequate, has been free all along. It seems a bit 
>>unfair to suddenly start charging for it.
> 
> My wording might have been a bit careless.... As I understand it (which
> might not be far, of course), the existing SpamAssassin remains, but
> with the cutoff set for the common masses at a fairly high level. If you
> pay the extra, you're able to adjust the level for yourself. 

OK, that makes sense. I would hate to think what would happen if some 
fine day GOL went and turned off my spam filtering altogether.

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com