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I look forward to the day when mailing lists are willing to only forward
signed and verified messages.
Tony Hansen
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Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Levine
>>I really wish that the two forwarders I use, one at the IEEE
>>and one at the Association of Yale Alumni, would do at least
>>a cheap and low-error spam filtering pass, say with the XBL,
>>which neither one appears to do. The mail that Yale forwards
>>to me is almost entirely diploma spam.
>
> I think that the significant point here is 'special case'. That is
> possible to do at the per user level but when you do it at the
> enterprise level you have to be careful.
>
> In particular if Hotmail (say) special cases Yale then it has to have a
> way to make sure that only the legitimate Yale alumni email is being
> forwarded. Otherwise the special case path becomes a potential loophole.
>
> In your case Yale is not doing effective spam filtering, but let us
> imagine for a moment that it does so reliably. Hotmail would probably
> want the option of relying on the prior spam filtering if it is
> effective. Mailing lists tend to have reasonably reliable spam filtering
> so it is not that unreasonable an expectation.
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