First let me say that Martin (and any others list managers) is doing pretty well. Although there was a breif rise in the volumen of spam leaking through during the transition it has settled down quite nicely. This is an arms war and I don't expect perfection. Cudos!
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:08:19PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Greetings list admins > > I'd just like to add that as almost all the SPAM I receive is HTML, a very > effective way to get rid of a very large fraction of spam would be to refuse > all HTML posts. I've not seen any genuine posts to this list which have been > web pages. I can almost second that. That seems to hold true for the last couple of months. Perhaps html is already blocked. I do know that some valid mail may come in with Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative where one is text/plain. Although i don't like the waste of bandwidth i could see accepting that. It is the stuff that is only html that should definitely be bounced. The other clear indicator that comes up more often here seems to be non-english messages. Care has to be taken not to block just because of a few words but if the message is mostly non-english or is in a charset incompatible with english it should be bounced. At least with the bounce mechanism senders can know they aren't getting through. I assume the bounce refers to a URL with guidelines. Let me be emphatic about not using IP based blocking. Unless you can guarantee that only spam will come from a given address its false-positive history is overwhelming. A few false negatives i can live with. A false positive that the sender cannot correct for is unacceptable. Having the wrong IP address or gateway is not a correctable circumstance. Like the poor, spam will be with us always. It cannot be stopped by legislation and social pressure will only go so far. Consider how much junk snailmail you get. Anyways, Martin & co I thank you for your efforts. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html