On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Peter, from the post of Thu, 22 Feb:
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<<< 451 Currently Sending Spam See:
http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?192.114.47.64
what do you know... Actcom got listed in an RBL :-)
Actcom gets listed in RBLs all the time because a) RBLs are stupid and
don't understand legit business newsletters of which actcom users, who
are companies, send a lot and b) RBLs like to list mail origins without
checking them in general for sanity. This means that aol, yahoo etc are
listed for spam ALL THE TIME and RBLs have heuristics that prevent such
origins to be listed at all. Smaller isp companies which are neither
small enough not to matter nor large enough to matter make it into RBLs,
very often because irate users misuse or forget about mailing list
accounts, opt ins, and such.
That's why RBLs suck. Use a Bayesian filter of your own instead, it will
learn what 'you' (or your company, or your list group) define as spam
and keep it that way. When you use Akismet etc you use just that, and
they should pay you for being the human turk who trains their filters by
reporting falses. Oh yes, they let you do it for free. I have no problem
with that, but I prefer to train my own filter. Message ccd to the list.
Peter
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