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Posted by Paul Szynol on Thursday, November 07 @ 14:34:35 EST Free Expression
One of the principal objections to filters is their inevitable inability to distinguish, in some cases, legitimate email from actual spam. EarthLink's filter, for instance, for a week mistakenly refused mail from a number of small networks which were tagged as sources of spam.

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