On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:27:39PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: > You can never "tell before it gets into your system" whether something is > spam or not. Thats the equivalent of trying to foretell the future. > Indeed, short messages are already in your system--There is this thing > called TCP windows--Messages under 8 or 16K are probably there before > sendmail gets around to processing anything.
Please ... "system" meaning mail system, not "computer". The goal is to stop spam as early as possible: the external relay (sends to internal servers) is better than at reception at the internal server, which is better than during the delivery process. I see it much like security: stopping the robber at the fence is better than stopping them at the front door, which is better than stopping them at the room door, which is better than stopping them at the safe door. > Its not the idea of blacklists that is flawed, its the idea that open > relays should be blocked that is flawed. An open relay black list is > either naive and misled, or it is an abuser. Your views contradict the majority of Internet users. http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/272.html http://www.rts.com.au/spam/open_relays.html http://www.lan-aces.com/webcleanFAQ.htm http://support.zotnet.net/faqs/spam-faq/spam-faq-5.shtml I stopped after the first page or so on Google. -- Theo Van Dinter, [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Consultant, Collective Technologies (www.collectivetech.com) Systems Administrator, bblisa.org/kluge.net --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
