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If it was perfect, spammers would no longer have an incentive.


I already specified that perfection is impossible. Even if every email is routed via a human filter instead of a computer filter, there would still be mistakes.

If a spammer can't get a message through, they will keep tweaking it until they succeed.

If even 999 out of 1000 spams are blocked, they'll still keep firing.




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