Hi, The problem is, that this blacklist can be feeded by mostly everyone. eg. A user is subscribed to a newsletter. After a while, he wants get rid of it. Instead of optin out, he declares the mail as spam.
This list contains a lot of european companies, airlines (!) and other well known firms. How can a english speaking person decide, if a german, italian, french email contains spam? We do the same for our customers and we learned how complicated it is. And it needs a lot of time. That's the reason, why they have to pay for it. Mulder said: Trust no one. ============================================ Am Montag, 1. November 2004 um 20:25 schrieben Sie: > At 12:02 PM 11/1/2004, you wrote: >>Heads up! Ipswitch's Oct 22 Anti-Spam update included an URL domain >>blacklist that listed kodak.com. Looks like we've been filtering out a >>few hundred legit messages... >> >>They also filtered out "mortgage application" in the phrase list file-- >>luckily I caught it before we deployed it to the production servers. >> >>I've alerted iMail support as well. > Ipswitch's URL Blacklist is almost beyond useless and this has been pointed > out to them waht seems like hundreds of times. I even sent them lists in > the past of domains that they had listed that should not have been (they > did remove most of those domains the next time they updated.) Ipswitch > "says" that "The URLs are then compiled into a list which is verified for > accuracy against the spam received" > http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/blacklist_policy.html > Obviously a simple scan through their list shows that this is a lie, > although their list does look "better" than it has in the past. > Here is a much better URL Blacklist > http://www.vantekcommunications.com/spam/ > 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/ ============================================ -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 1 391 30 00 Fax: +41 1 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer -------------------------------------------- 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/
