Out of couriosity ohw are you notifed/determine what is a false positive???? And are you guarenteed that you know about all false positives????
Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Travis Rabe > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > > John, we have discussed this before and apparently we need to yet again. > > Since you are not *EMAIL OVERLOAD* people can apply policies any way they > see fit. What you think people should "never do" are in fact > great policies > on other networks. At our offices, blacklists like Spam Cop have > yielded me > three false positives in the past 5 months. Let's calcualte that....... > > Roughly 1500 emails per day per office = 7500 emails per day > 5 months times (lets say 30 days = 150 days > > 7500 * 150 = 1,250,000 total e-mails > Total Fales Positives = 3 > > 3/1,250,000 = .0000024 = PRETTY DAMN GOOD! > > > If I were running an ISP, sure my approach may be different, but I'm not. > For offices that strictly prohibit anything but work related mail blocking > on a relaible list like SpamCop works great! Please rememeber the way you > run your e-mail servers isn't the way we shoudl all run ours. > > Thanks > > Travis > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Tolmachoff > > (Lists) > > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:36 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > > > > > > I would rather just return a 5XX reject message to someone that is on > > > SpamCop. Let their mail admin deal with their blacklisted > > server problems. > > > Better them than me. I guess that all depends upon your > religion though, > > > and > > > whether you lean more towards Len or Scott's viewpoint of > what should be > > > blocked. I see merits in both arguments, but on the most > > reliable DNSRBLs > > > I > > > use, I would much rather block than waste all that processing on > > > filtering. > > > > Halt. Cease. Flag on play. > > > > You should never ever take such an action based on a single DNS > > based black > > list. Haven't you heard of false positives and incorrect > listings? Did you > > know that for about a year, (do not know about recently,) that > SpamCop was > > listing Dunn & Bradstreet off and on? Turned out it was people who were > > having actions taken against that reported LEGIT e-mail to > SpamCop as spam > > and got it listed. > > > > John Tolmachoff > > Engineer/Consultant/Owner > > eServices For You > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
