> Amen to that, but don't mention that fact to S.W.! :-) There is no france.blackholes.us RBL, as that origin country is not famed here for spam spew. So right off the bat, the risk/reward analysis cannot be comparable, as the the volume of empirical evidence as input is not comparable. You're basically mixing apples and oranges.
And. . . <sigh>. . . regardless of origin, I already stressed that measures need to match the _present_ realities of business and that wholesale envelope blocking, just like content blocking, needs to undergo consistent auditing. A sysadmin deploying a product supported by mail from a foreign country needs to make whitelisting adjustments; if overall pass/fail for a single test are the only choices provided by one's software, that's obviously going to be useless when/if FPs come up. Given whitelisting ability, whatever "hardship" Kyle experienced in arranging to whitelist the messages is just one data point. An audit may show that the blacklist has had this single FP, and nnnn good catches, the final analysis of 1/nnnn being a hybrid of internal expectations and many external suggestions. Leaping to, and committing unwaveringly to, either conclusion on the country-blacklist issue is backward. Decisions should be dictated by business realities that include present partnerships, future prospects, and the threat of losing one's job -- the last of which can come both from spamfighting that's draconian _and_ from spamfighting that's ineffective. I stand by my original statement on the matter. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ 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/
