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  [CM] Why are major companies exiting the spam filtering business? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-31 10:49 +0000

#10217 — [CM] Why are major companies exiting the spam filtering business?

From the «because we've already seen all the adverts?» department:
Title: Ask Slashdot:  Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business?
Author: help@slashdot.org
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:23:00 -0500
Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GmS5EAW9t_s/ask-slashdot-why-are-major-companies-exiting-the-spam-filtering-business

broswell writes: For years we used Postini for spam filtering. Google bought
Postini in 2007, operated it for 5 years and then began shutting it down. Then
we moved to MX Logic. McAfee bought MX Logic, and McAfee was purchased by
Intel. Now Intel is shutting down the service. Neither company chose to raise
prices, or spin off the division. Anyone want to speculate on the reasons?

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