So what do you suggest be done? These are the same complaints that are heard for any anti-spam initiative whether it's RBL, DNSBLs, content checking, etc but none of it will dissuade people from using them. In the case for Razor, the understanding is that a TES score falls more rapidly than it rises. In the case of DCC or Pyzor, you can use your own databases(you can for Razor if you have the money and pound the public servers a lot). In the case for Spamassassin, you create your own rules and whitelists. There's nothing that you can do about recipients outside your domain other than complain to the individual postmasters of those other domains.
-----Original Message----- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Razor-users] Turning Razor into a censorship tool In relation to the moveon.org situation, let me create a hypethetical scenereo. I personally run two mail servers., one for myself and one for EFF. The server I own hosts about 25 email domains. I get a lot of email traffic and thousands of spam messages a day. I use spam assassin and I could take the very high scoring spam as well as spam already flagged by razor and report it building an electronic reputation that makes me a reliable source - having correctly reported thousands of spam messages a day. Having established my reputation, I then also include all mail coming from a number of organization who I don't like politically. The moment these messages hit my server I forward them to razor and after several are automatically reported, razor flags this as spam and thousands of other servers who rely on razor start marking all message coming from the affected sites as spam. By the time someone manually revokes the messages the damage is already done. And thus someone like me could censor sites that I don't agree with politically. So - what would stop me from gaming razor this way to use it as a mass censorship tool to silence those who disagree with me? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. www.slickedit.com/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. www.slickedit.com/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
