Stephen Gran said: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:14:19PM +0100, M.S. Lucas said: >> Hello, >> >> If somebody knows a better list to discuss this please set a follow up >> because this is way off topic for the clamav list >> >> I know there isn't something as a uniform error message for a 5xx error >> at >> smtp time for something like a virus/spam notification. But wouldn''t it >> be >> nice to have something like that. >> >> So mailinglists which does forward spam/virusses will honor this uniform >> 5xx error and don't send us the recipents another probe. > > In general, this hasn't been a problem for me, and I am on quite a few > mailing lists. Most of the MLM's out there have some logic for this, > so if you accept most messages sent from the list, you stay on without > probes. If someone's MLM doesn't do this, I would suggest hacking on the > MLM to have this sort of logic. The problem with your approach is that > it means every MTA everywhere needs to do the same thing consistently - > this will never happen. Many MTA's still don't support ESMTP. Better to > change it in one place, and simpler.
My thinking on this is, it is the list manager's responsibility to all posts only by list members, and that list members will talk about anything in the world including spam, and will even have snippets of spam in their messages, at times. Therefore I don't filter lists. As a list manager myself I find this results in far fewer complaints from list members than trapping false positives. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
