Re: SPAM Filter
From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/06/04
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 01:13:03 -0500
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 07:42:34 +0200, UNIX admin wrote:
> I was left with the belief that the cause of the illness *are* the
> spammers.
The spam problem would not exist if it was not successful in parting fools
from their money. Where do you think the spammers get their motivation?
> You can't 'fix' them, but you can prevent their spam. Going
> to a blackhole list, they just find another open relay, so it's a
> constant game of catching up with them. Except that the spammers are
> always a step ahead. So then you're not fighting the problem
> proactively, but reactively.
We are discussing the filtration of spam at ISP level, not on one's own
personal mail server. Even 0.1% false positives in your recommended
filter is unacceptable. And I am damn sure that I will not sieve through
over 6000 filtered messages per day to determine which were false
positives.
Blackhole listing will not remove the spam problem entirely and had you
paid attention to my first comment you would have seen that I claimed only
90% or more rejection of spam. I can, if you wish, document that from the
maillog on the server.
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