-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:35:17PM +0530, Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] wrote: > > My idea is that the MDA simply tag the messages, and that the MUA, either > > localy or using some POP-like protocol, read the flag and, following > > users configurations, either dump or accept the message. > > anything that requires some things to be changes will not be accepted and deployed > quickly.
If ever, yes. One of the advantages of the system I described is that it will work even if you only deply it on a single MTA. Small drop in the ocean, but should improve a bit. > > This point comes to my mind after having serious problems with > > ISPs rejecting emails that were destined to me, but were not > > spam. Currently, I'm having serious problems receiving e-mails > > from a business partner at Korea, cause the ISP simply decided to > > drop all e-mails from that company's netblock. > > this is where the blacklist are useful. a combination of spam assassain+postfix+avir > mail+tarpit is very good at keeping the spam out of the system. if the compony is > seriouly into spam filtering simply rejecting is not the answer but rejecting it > intelligently is the answer My point exactly. > isnt this therd going in places where it is not supposed to go ? smtp server and > spam issues, when it should have stayed in backdoors. is it time to kill this thread > ? This kind of discussion has been going around the net for a long time now. I'm sure we all see at least a thread like this every day, on at list one of the lists we all subscribe. And yes, you are right. Maybe it is time to kill it. I'm stopping here. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAR53tpdyWzQ5b5ckRAnOuAJ9BCAugOQvZQXnidnG8CkuiRqUMmwCgmjeV y1hdDSdjFN1qQSzbA2LgX8I= =XhtK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
