I'm not deleting legitimate messages the last time I checked.

If my customers want to sign up for Topica, they can add them to their Web mail address book.  I figure that this is only a transition period until Topica loses all of their legit business due to their practices.

Clearly, I am well aware of this issue :)

I'm much more concerned about the personal E-mail that you said was also blocked by SBL.  I would definitely consider dropping their weight based on your claim that you saw 10 such messages in a day.

Also, don't assume that I am irresponsible in regard to weighting.  I watch my system like a hawk, and I use over 100 different tests, with only two capable of deleting a message based on one hit (the other being my own IP blacklist).  When I find a problem, I always fix it, though some need further verification and monitoring.

Matt



Bill Landry wrote:
So I got to ask then, is this a good enough reason to delete legitimate messages?
 
Bill
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I think what Matt maybe saying, is that even if legit messages come through Topica, Topica may be harvesting those addresses from the legit messages for use in unintended ways, AKA spam.

 

John Tolmachoff

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Wow, what does any of this have to do with delivering legitimate messages rather than deleting them?  I do not intentionally deliver spam from any source, including these - but I do deliver the legitimate messages sent from any source (ah, the true benefits of a spam weighting system).  You, on the other hand, summarily delete anything that may come from a source of spam, whether the message is legitimate or not.  I simply do not understand this philosophy, nor that you would argue in favor of it.

 

Bill

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From: Matt

Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:29 AM

Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Topica and SBL

 

This took actual research to figure out :)  Topica is absolutely a spam house, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them populating their database with addresses and list demographics from Topica.com.  Many of the lists that Topica sends out are auto-subscribed to by a bot that they operate, so they are merely re-distributing much of the content.


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