On Sunday 18 June 2006 16:17, Richard Clayton took the opportunity to write:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Martin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
> >Should another email come in that matches anything on the current black
> >list, then it is blocked and the details (IP etc, as above) added to the
> > top of the list (the details are added as a new record as maybe some part
> > has changed - this allows the list to adapt to variations in the spam
> > attempt)
>
> If any of your email comes via ISP "smarthosts" then your heuristic will
> (unwisely) block further legitimate email that happens to traverse the
> same smarthost...

A temporary blacklisting that causes a 450 status code rather than a 550 
should be pretty safe ... unless the smarthost continously sends spam, but in 
that case they have a serious problem.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
                       (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks)

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