https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6668

--- Comment #7 from Darxus <[email protected]> 2011-10-03 19:16:27 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> I don't have a problem with this concept.  My veto statement above had to do
> with the actual URL and the description which were a direct link and
> advertisement for a vendor.

Ah, that was just a rough guess at how it should be implemented.  A url to a
spamassassin page certainly seems entirely appropriate to me.  

> A more generic message such as this would be fine and +1'd by me:
> 
> The RBL responded with a failure code.  Visit www.spamassassin.org/rbl for 
> more
> information.

That sounds great to me as well.  Although I'd prefer something in the wiki for
maintainability, I don't know, maybe
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/XBLAbuse ?


(In reply to comment #4)
> > getting the provider to disable the relevant network tests.  Which is worse?
> 
> False positives are worse from an anti-Spam perspective.  

You mis-read what I said.  I never suggested false positives (in fact I
suggested it was bad that SEM intentionally caused false positives).  I was
talking about causing false negatives (spam being marked as non-spam).  

> That's unrealistic as there are great services that have reasonable thresholds
> for use. 

So the question is, what are acceptable methods of enforcing those thresholds? 
Blocking queries resulting in delay of email is acceptable to you.  I don't
know how effective that is in getting people to stop querying, and it doesn't
provide any feedback to indicate that there is a problem.  Is it acceptable to
cause false-negatives, spam being marked as non-spam, with clear indication
(via a matching rule and description) of what the problem is?

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