Why is MS doing spam checks first?

[Scott Silva]

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Ed Bruce spake the following on 12/1/2005 6:13 AM:
> Remco Barendse wrote:
> 
>>
>> You are excused ;)
>>
>> But I think that the last few months SpamAss has turned out to be more
>> of a cpu+mem hog than any other check you would be doing on an e-mail.
>>
>> I think that any virusscanner will have scanned the average message in
>> less than half a second wheras SpamAss is taking several seconds at least
>>
>> Sorry if my message was unclear but maybe it's time to switch priorities?
> 
> 
> But its still true that the majority of the email we receive is spam.
> I'm guessing this is still true for the majority of users of MS.
> 
> But I would prefer, for personal reasons, to have virus scanning first.
> 
IF you must have virus scanning first, you could use mimedefang or
clamav milter and scan for viruses first. But you will probably have
more load, not less.

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