On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 01:18 +0000, Julian Mehnle wrote: > > blacklists > > are under control of the operators of the lists who guarantee no due > > process and are accountable to no one. > > Who says that benevolent-dictator blacklists cannot be an effective > response to the spam prolem? > > And of course it is untrue that these benevolent dictators are accountable > to no one. They are accountable to the users of their blacklists.
Absolutely! I use a mix of 6 advisroy blacklists on my mail server. For my personal account, these stop about 80% of the spam sent to me, and probably a similar percentage for my customers and my mailing lists. I haven't had a complaint about a false positive from these blacklists in well over a year. The last time I got such a report was on an IP address blocked because it was listed by Spamcop - one of several false positives from this source. I dropped Spamcop from the mix and have had no such problems since then. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
