[Declude.JunkMail] Filter processing

2003-07-27 Thread Kevin Bilbee
When there is a hit in a filter file does declude continue to procees the
filer or stop?

If it stops then it would be better to have the lines that hit the most at
the top of the filter text file.

I have already noticed we get the most HELO hits on our own IP addresses. So
with this thinking declude would do less processing if they are at the
beginning of the file.

If this is the case I think I will write a filter optimizer. It would go
through the log files and count the number of hits on particular lines in
the specified filter. Then rewrite the file with the most hit lines at the
top.



Kevin Bilbee



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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Bill B.
I just registered and turned it on, and it seems to have a lot of spam IPs listed.  
I'll keep an eye out for false positives.

Bill


-Original Message-
From: Joshua Levitsky
Sent: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:43:24 -0400
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..



- Original Message - 
From: Smart Business Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joshua Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Saturday, July 26, 2003 you wrote:
 JL http://www.trustic.com/
 JL Trustic is a new solution to the problem of unsolicited email.

   It is going to be a subscription service -

 Companies, and individuals who receive a large amount of email
 will be required to pay for access to the block list.

Yes, but it depends on what large is. It was created by the guy that made
Yahoo's groups before Yahoo owned them. I am willing to try it during the
beta and block some mail, and hope that it has a setup like Spamcop for
pricing. I actually donate to spamcop to make submissions. I would be
willing to give Trustic something to help them stay in business. Not a
lot... but something and right now it is free so give it a try...

-Josh

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky
- Original Message - 
From: Bill B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 I just registered and turned it on, and it seems to have a lot of spam IPs
listed.  I'll keep an eye out for false positives.


One nice thing is if you have a FP then you can login to trustic, and change
that IP to trust it.

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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Omar K.
Yes, same here, I noticed that it is tagging IP's that have not been caught
by easynet or osirusoft.


Another really cool thing about this service, is the stat report they send
you at the end of the day, tells you what IP's they blocked for you, what
IP's you gave a good positive, and other general stat.  

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill B.
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


I just registered and turned it on, and it seems to have a lot of spam IPs
listed.  I'll keep an eye out for false positives.

Bill


-Original Message-
From: Joshua Levitsky
Sent: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:43:24 -0400
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..



- Original Message - 
From: Smart Business Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joshua Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Saturday, July 26, 2003 you wrote:
 JL http://www.trustic.com/
 JL Trustic is a new solution to the problem of unsolicited email.

   It is going to be a subscription service -

 Companies, and individuals who receive a large amount of email
 will be required to pay for access to the block list.

Yes, but it depends on what large is. It was created by the guy that made
Yahoo's groups before Yahoo owned them. I am willing to try it during the
beta and block some mail, and hope that it has a setup like Spamcop for
pricing. I actually donate to spamcop to make submissions. I would be
willing to give Trustic something to help them stay in business. Not a
lot... but something and right now it is free so give it a try...

-Josh

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Joshua,

Sunday, July 27, 2003 you wrote:
JL Yes, but it depends on what large is.

It seems to me the statement applies to all businesses.

JL It was created by the guy that made Yahoo's groups before Yahoo
JL owned them.

Well, that isn't exactly a confidence builder for me for various
reasons. But it is especially negative since it is going to be a
subscription service.

JL I am willing to try it during the beta and block some mail, and
JL hope that it has a setup like Spamcop for pricing.

The problem I have is that I have no way of knowing the cost of
this service since the subscription price remains unpublished.  I
don't care how good this thing is if I can't afford it.




Terry Fritts


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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Bill B.
Hmm... I wonder how effectively that data could be used to generate lists of IPs to 
block at the firewall level.  That'll be interesting to look at.

Bill


-Original Message-
From: Omar K.
Sent: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:32:53 +0200
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


Yes, same here, I noticed that it is tagging IP's that have not been caught
by easynet or osirusoft.


Another really cool thing about this service, is the stat report they send
you at the end of the day, tells you what IP's they blocked for you, what
IP's you gave a good positive, and other general stat.  

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill B.
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


I just registered and turned it on, and it seems to have a lot of spam IPs
listed.  I'll keep an eye out for false positives.

Bill


-Original Message-
From: Joshua Levitsky
Sent: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:43:24 -0400
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..



- Original Message - 
From: Smart Business Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joshua Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Saturday, July 26, 2003 you wrote:
 JL http://www.trustic.com/
 JL Trustic is a new solution to the problem of unsolicited email.

   It is going to be a subscription service -

 Companies, and individuals who receive a large amount of email
 will be required to pay for access to the block list.

Yes, but it depends on what large is. It was created by the guy that made
Yahoo's groups before Yahoo owned them. I am willing to try it during the
beta and block some mail, and hope that it has a setup like Spamcop for
pricing. I actually donate to spamcop to make submissions. I would be
willing to give Trustic something to help them stay in business. Not a
lot... but something and right now it is free so give it a try...

-Josh

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky
- Original Message - 
From: Omar K. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Yes, same here, I noticed that it is tagging IP's that have not been
caught
 by easynet or osirusoft.


 Another really cool thing about this service, is the stat report they send
 you at the end of the day, tells you what IP's they blocked for you, what
 IP's you gave a good positive, and other general stat.

Also when you feel comfortable that they are always getting the IP out of
your emails you forward you can go in your profile on Trustic, and turn off
those IP validation emails. I did about 150 emails with the validation and
then I submitted 1000 emails after turning it off. Nice thing was I am able
to go to Trustic and look through all the records to make adjustments for
anything that might have submitted wrong. Nothing did submit wrong except
for mail I forwarded from my Hotmail account. I reported the problem to
them. Hotmail delivers mail from the outside to a Hotmail server and then to
your Hotmail mailbox server so Trustic thinks the mail came from Hotmail but
it really should look at the second received line. I'm sure they'll take
another look at their logic. No mail to my Imail server was recorded wrong
as near as I can tell.

-Josh

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky

- Original Message - 
From: Smart Business Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joshua Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 The problem I have is that I have no way of knowing the cost of
 this service since the subscription price remains unpublished.  I
 don't care how good this thing is if I can't afford it.

Each to his own. I like to have a positive outlook on things. Right now
Trustic is free. Submitting to Trustic is just forwarding spam. I already
forward spam to spamcop, so all I'm doing is adding another address to
submit spam to. If Trustic costs money later and I can't afford it or don't
want to pay then well I'll stop using Trustic, and I'll be happy that I
helped contribute to another spam prevention system. I am happy to help
along any system that will help put an end to spam. Even if I'm not using
Trustic in the end it will lessen spam because ISPs will have to stop
spammers to send mail to the many companies that will use Trustic.

Either way. Just wanted to tell the list about something cool. Nobody has to
use it if they don't want to. Just thought it looked promising.

-Josh

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky

- Original Message - 
From: Bill B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Hmm... I wonder how effectively that data could be used to generate lists
of IPs to block at the firewall level.  That'll be interesting to look at.

You should send them a message on their contact form about maybe an XML
export of records.. or I guess you could do a zone xfer and then export from
that data to something your firewall would know what to do with unless
your firewall can use DNS records for blocking. (That would be a cool
firewall feature.)

-Josh

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Bill B.
I was thinking more along the lines of seeing in the report that particular IPs send 
us 100% spam, so then I'd manually add those IPs to our firewall rules.

But I just signed up today and I haven't seen my first Trustic report yet, so I don't 
know whats possible yet.

Bill


-Original Message-
From: Joshua Levitsky
Sent: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:13:12 -0400
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..



- Original Message - 
From: Bill B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Hmm... I wonder how effectively that data could be used to generate lists
of IPs to block at the firewall level.  That'll be interesting to look at.

You should send them a message on their contact form about maybe an XML
export of records.. or I guess you could do a zone xfer and then export from
that data to something your firewall would know what to do with unless
your firewall can use DNS records for blocking. (That would be a cool
firewall feature.)

-Josh

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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Robertson
I've just started forwarding spam to them, but only the stuff that comes
in from Imail's content filtering, which is basically just sweeping up
after Declude (and it STILL bags about 10% of the survivors!).  

One thing I was REALLY not happy about was their method of adding
default positives (i.e. the originally posted test).  Basically if no
one has said anything bad about a server it gets an automatic positive.
I plugged this into Declude and gave a blast of positives -- all to spam
that apparently hadn't made it into their system yet.  By the time I got
it shut off I'd given out 47 'false' positives.  That's not very smart
logic and a great way to loosen up your spam rules.  Much smarter to
control the trusted entries yourself via other means (i.e. Declude
whitelist or make your own trusted whitelist in Declude with a negative
weight).

It seems to me that, with this system at least, what you want to do is 

1. Stay MILES away from that auto-positive list to prevent weighting
spammer IPs as valid.
2. Forward spam to your account's Trustic bounce address.  Put up with
the validation messages for a day or so and then let the thing run on
its own.
3. Att a test into Declude for the Trustic NEG list.  Weight it zero or
light until it proves itself.
4. Stay MILES away from that auto-positive list to prevent weighting
spammer IPs as valid.


 Matt Robertson   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky

- Original Message - 
From: Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 1:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 One thing I was REALLY not happy about was their method of adding
 default positives (i.e. the originally posted test).  Basically if no
 one has said anything bad about a server it gets an automatic positive.
 I plugged this into Declude and gave a blast of positives -- all to spam
 that apparently hadn't made it into their system yet.  By the time I got
 it shut off I'd given out 47 'false' positives.  That's not very smart
 logic and a great way to loosen up your spam rules.  Much smarter to
 control the trusted entries yourself via other means (i.e. Declude
 whitelist or make your own trusted whitelist in Declude with a negative
 weight).

You can use the DNS entry that doesn't have POS- on the front and you
won't give positives for mail servers that haven't been seen by Trustic
before. I am going to suggest to them that there be a neutral setting. I
understand they want to build a very complete list of mail servers so admins
can take responsibility for their servers. If new servers were added as
neutral then they would get a good list of lots of servers and weighting
wouldn't be affected.  Would also be nice if they gave one result for bad
(which they do 127.0.0.2) and another result for positive and yet another
for trusted positive. Then I could give positive weights for trusted
positives and take away spam points from servers I say are good.

-Josh


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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Robertson
I just verified a piece of spam that originated from a dialup IP.  Now
its in my list and I see Trustic has listed that IP as a trusted
server... Its loaded with automatic recommendations from that stupid
auto-positive list.  In fact the last four spams come from servers
marked as 'Trusted'.

Looks like the people using automatic whitelisting are overwhelming the
blacklisters who actually send mail... A losing battle.  ESPECIALLY
since I had Declude ROUTETO my high-weight spam to my Trustic bounce
address... Where it promptly gave them all positive recommendations
until I got it shut off.

Beta indeed.


 Matt Robertson   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 MSB Designs, Inc.  http://mysecretbase.com


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Levitsky
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- Original Message - 
From: Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 1:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 One thing I was REALLY not happy about was their method of adding
 default positives (i.e. the originally posted test).  Basically if no
 one has said anything bad about a server it gets an automatic
positive.
 I plugged this into Declude and gave a blast of positives -- all to
spam
 that apparently hadn't made it into their system yet.  By the time I
got
 it shut off I'd given out 47 'false' positives.  That's not very smart
 logic and a great way to loosen up your spam rules.  Much smarter to
 control the trusted entries yourself via other means (i.e. Declude
 whitelist or make your own trusted whitelist in Declude with a
negative
 weight).

You can use the DNS entry that doesn't have POS- on the front and you
won't give positives for mail servers that haven't been seen by Trustic
before. I am going to suggest to them that there be a neutral setting. I
understand they want to build a very complete list of mail servers so
admins
can take responsibility for their servers. If new servers were added as
neutral then they would get a good list of lots of servers and weighting
wouldn't be affected.  Would also be nice if they gave one result for
bad
(which they do 127.0.0.2) and another result for positive and yet
another
for trusted positive. Then I could give positive weights for trusted
positives and take away spam points from servers I say are good.

-Josh


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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky

- Original Message - 
From: Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 2:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 I just verified a piece of spam that originated from a dialup IP.  Now
 its in my list and I see Trustic has listed that IP as a trusted
 server... Its loaded with automatic recommendations from that stupid
 auto-positive list.  In fact the last four spams come from servers
 marked as 'Trusted'.

 Looks like the people using automatic whitelisting are overwhelming the
 blacklisters who actually send mail... A losing battle.  ESPECIALLY
 since I had Declude ROUTETO my high-weight spam to my Trustic bounce
 address... Where it promptly gave them all positive recommendations
 until I got it shut off.

It's marked trusted but is it trusted and there is a negative on the left or
is it trusted and there is a positive on the left? (In the first column
there are plus signs and minus signs.)

Also the email address submission only gives negatives... no positives
not sure how you could ROUTETO and have positives as a result.

-Josh


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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Robertson
*I* manually marked them as negatives, and my one manual entry showed up
as such correctly But that IP had four more entries showing the
automated 'default positive' entries, and apparently that was enough to
get this dialup IP listed as 'trusted' within the system... And as I
noted its not alone.

Yes, I know the address submission is *supposed* to give only negatives,
but I got something like 8 positives in before I shut it off (They got
plus signs).  I keep my Declude entries set to Verbose so I can follow
what gets sent out and see what it wound up being when it arrives at
Trustic.  Mail volume is low today so I can follow along pretty closely.

I'd leave this service alone for awhile so they can get their act
together.  They may call this a beta but it looks like it should still
be an alpha.  That method of auto-whitelisting is clearly something that
wasn't thought through.  All you have to do is look at a Trustic log and
check out all the 'trusted' dialup and broadband IPs to see that.  

Sorry to sound so negative, but its just really a frustrating lesson in
what happens when I don't think stuff through.  The 'positive' list
method of theirs is so deeply flawed its hard to see how anyone could
put something like that out on the market... Automatically giving
positive entries just because something isn't in a blacklist yet.  How
ridiculous.  Most of the anti-spam battle is about discovering new IPs
every day, and those IPs will change tomorrow.  All their system will do
is get server admins to let spam through.

Could that have been the idea in the first place?  Who knows anything
about these guys?


 Matt Robertson   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 MSB Designs, Inc.  http://mysecretbase.com


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 I just verified a piece of spam that originated from a dialup IP.  Now
 its in my list and I see Trustic has listed that IP as a trusted
 server... Its loaded with automatic recommendations from that stupid
 auto-positive list.  In fact the last four spams come from servers
 marked as 'Trusted'.

 Looks like the people using automatic whitelisting are overwhelming
the
 blacklisters who actually send mail... A losing battle.  ESPECIALLY
 since I had Declude ROUTETO my high-weight spam to my Trustic bounce
 address... Where it promptly gave them all positive recommendations
 until I got it shut off.

It's marked trusted but is it trusted and there is a negative on the
left or
is it trusted and there is a positive on the left? (In the first column
there are plus signs and minus signs.)

Also the email address submission only gives negatives... no
positives
not sure how you could ROUTETO and have positives as a result.

-Josh


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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky
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Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Could that have been the idea in the first place?  Who knows anything
 about these guys?

While I can only speak of how I have interacted with them. (I have had a
positive experience.) I have to say that your last sentence is just meant to
slander them through the implication that they aren't legit.

If you look at http://www.trustic.com/about/management you will see they
have a real brain on their management team. Mark Fletcher is a smart guy,
and a legitimate guy. You shouldn't say something like that last sentence to
back up your argument that the service is Beta. It just weakens every point
you put in your emails prior to that.

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky

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Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:08 PM
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 I'd leave this service alone for awhile so they can get their act
 together.  They may call this a beta but it looks like it should still
 be an alpha.  That method of auto-whitelisting is clearly something that
 wasn't thought through.  All you have to do is look at a Trustic log and
 check out all the 'trusted' dialup and broadband IPs to see that.

Wouldn't you get mad if one spam submitted marked your server as a spammer?
Isn't that the argument people make against SpamCop? If 1000 servers got
mail from your server and one guy said you had spam from your server then
Trustic wouldn't block you where SpamCop might because SpamCop doesn't give
credit for all the good things your server has done. There's a learning
period that goes in to any intelligent blacklist. Right now there are only
about 350,000 IPs in their database. One of the top blocked sites only has 3
emails that were submitted to get it on the blocked list. It needs more
volume to be accurate. I personally have 2000 records as negatives, and 37
records that I have submitted as positives to help with the accuracy.

Those trusted dialup and broadband IPs are trusted because people have
gotten mail but not gotten to submit the spam back to Trustic so the proper
action is to trust them. Also your Trustic ranking controls how much your
negatives count in the system. I'm a 0.33 ranking. If you are lower than
your reports count for less towards making a server untrusted.

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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Omar K.
Indeed, I think you should forward your legit concerns to them if you truly
want to make a positive difference.

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 Could that have been the idea in the first place?  Who knows anything
 about these guys?

While I can only speak of how I have interacted with them. (I have had a
positive experience.) I have to say that your last sentence is just meant to
slander them through the implication that they aren't legit.

If you look at http://www.trustic.com/about/management you will see they
have a real brain on their management team. Mark Fletcher is a smart guy,
and a legitimate guy. You shouldn't say something like that last sentence to
back up your argument that the service is Beta. It just weakens every point
you put in your emails prior to that.

-Josh


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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Robertson
Omar K. wrote:
Indeed, I think you should forward your legit concerns to them if you
truly
want to make a positive difference.

It was precisely the desire to make a positive difference that motivated
me to describe my experience to the list.  

For my part I appreciate it if an early adopter subs his/her toe and
warns me about it before I go off and waste my own time making the same
mistake.

I know what you meant was for me to provide feedback to the trustic
people, and I've done that as well.


 Matt Robertson   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 MSB Designs, Inc.  http://mysecretbase.com


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Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..



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Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


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Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Could that have been the idea in the first place?  Who knows anything
 about these guys?

While I can only speak of how I have interacted with them. (I have had a
positive experience.) I have to say that your last sentence is just
meant to
slander them through the implication that they aren't legit.

If you look at http://www.trustic.com/about/management you will see they
have a real brain on their management team. Mark Fletcher is a smart
guy,
and a legitimate guy. You shouldn't say something like that last
sentence to
back up your argument that the service is Beta. It just weakens every
point
you put in your emails prior to that.

-Josh


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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Robertson
I can understand how you'd be defensive since you recommended them to
the list, but this has nothing to do with sentiment and everything to do
with empirical observation of specific results.  I'm sorry you feel the
way you do, but don't bandy about words like 'slander' when clearly they
don't belong in the conversation.

The following servers are trusted by Trustic.  I only used tested this
service for about 1 1/2 hours so I have a pretty short list (90 entries,
47 of which were slammed in via their automated positive procedure).  If
I had the time to waste I'd go thru the whole list and I'm sure I'd find
more jewels.  I pulled these out of just the first two screens:

63.149.203.45 
 5 automated positive recommendations and a trusted server.  
 But here they're listed on THIRTEEN separate lines
 http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=63.149.203.45 

pd9eb978c.dip.t-dialin.net (217.235.151.140) 
 http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=217.235.151.140
 Dial-in, huh?  Quite a list on the other spam services.  
 Trustic lists them as trusted.

user-0can757.cable.mindspring.com (24.171.156.167) 
 another home cable modem listed like crazy but trusted at trustic
 http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=24.171.156.167

61.99.1.113
 same story here
 http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=61.99.1.113

pcp03063004pcs.newlaf01.mi.comcast.net ( 68.41.175.131 )
 home dsl cable IP

pcp515079pcs.nash01.tn.comcast.net ( 68.53.145.237 )
 home dsl cable IP

d.hm02.com ( 207.158.1.214 ) 
 4 positive *automated* entries, but listed in SpamCop and sent me
spam

mm12.metamailoffers.com ( 207.134.3.243 ) 
 read the domain name.  Wonder what they do.  
 They also have two automated favorable positives 

user-0can757.cable.mindspring.com ( 24.171.156.167 )
 another home dsl service with an automated positive and trusted
status.

mtiwmhc14.worldnet.att.net ( 204.127.131.114 ) 
 This one sent me 3 spams directly today.  Then a 4th came thru
relayed by 
 another server thru this one.  Trustic's system gives only the last
IP a 
 minus rating and all previous ones a positive, so *I* gave it an
automatic 
 positive the fourth time it spammed me.

What does it all mean?  First of all I don't care how smart the guy is
who founded this system.  Trustic as it presently performs doesn't
belong in my production environment, which the Trustic people are up
front about, at least (betas after all should be used only in
development and staging environments).  From what I can see the system
should be labeled more of a public alpha, rather than a beta.  It has
holes which you can drive a mail truck through.


 Matt Robertson   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky

- Original Message - 
From: Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 7:14 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 63.149.203.45
  5 automated positive recommendations and a trusted server.
  But here they're listed on THIRTEEN separate lines
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=63.149.203.45

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=63.149.203.45+

You were one of the positives and you didn't bother to submit spam to make
it not trusted.

 pd9eb978c.dip.t-dialin.net (217.235.151.140)
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=217.235.151.140
  Dial-in, huh?  Quite a list on the other spam services.
  Trustic lists them as trusted.

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=217.235.151.140

Again you never bothered to forward spam to them. What's your point exactly
about the IP being on other lists? That has nothing to do with this list. If
every entry was on every list then you could use a single blacklist, and
that's it. Why do you use more than one blacklist??? I know I use them
because each has different things to offer and I weight tests based on what
each RBL can provide me with.

 user-0can757.cable.mindspring.com (24.171.156.167)
  another home cable modem listed like crazy but trusted at trustic
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=24.171.156.167

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=24.171.156.167

Here there was 1 default positive and 1 spam mail that you submitted. Should
they mark this a spammer simply because 1 email says a good thing and 1
email says a bad thing? That would hardly seem fair. Would you want people
not to get mail from you because the Trustic list had 1 record of good mail
a 1 record of bad mail for your server?

 61.99.1.113
  same story here
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=61.99.1.113

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=61.99.1.113

Again you never bothered to submit a spam report. How can you complain
without bothering to report spam?

 pcp03063004pcs.newlaf01.mi.comcast.net ( 68.41.175.131 )
  home dsl cable IP

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=68.41.175.131

Again you never bothered to submit a spam report. How can you complain?

 pcp515079pcs.nash01.tn.comcast.net ( 68.53.145.237 )
  home dsl cable IP

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=68.53.145.237

This is another where there is one spam (from you) and one positive from
another person. Not sure why they would block a host on only that data so of
course it is trusted.

 d.hm02.com ( 207.158.1.214 )
  4 positive *automated* entries, but listed in SpamCop and sent me
 spam

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=207.158.1.214

Here there are 4 positives and 2 negatives. Why wouldn't this be trusted?

 mm12.metamailoffers.com ( 207.134.3.243 )
  read the domain name.  Wonder what they do.
  They also have two automated favorable positives

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=207.134.3.243

2 positives to your 1 negative.


 What does it all mean?  First of all I don't care how smart the guy is
 who founded this system.  Trustic as it presently performs doesn't
 belong in my production environment, which the Trustic people are up
 front about, at least (betas after all should be used only in
 development and staging environments).  From what I can see the system
 should be labeled more of a public alpha, rather than a beta.  It has
 holes which you can drive a mail truck through.

More like you don't really understand how a trust system should work. This
isn't meant to use blacklists from other people. This is meant to be a
circle of trust. If people get mail and never bother to submit spam then the
hosts that send the mail are trusted. You didn't bother to submit spam to
some of the very hosts you are complaining are trusted.

I'm not trying to make this an argument. I'm really just trying to offer
counter points to what I feel is flawed logic. I am going to stop now as I
don't want this to be a war. If anyone needs any help using Trustic feel
free to contact me off-list. I encourage any of you that try it to submit
feedback on the site one way or the other. I'm sure they will take all
feedback in to consideration during the beta period.

I would encourage anyone that has read this far to look at the following
untrusted servers to see how it will work when people actually submit spam
to the system...

http://www.trustic.com/ip/61.159.235.36
http://www.trustic.com/ip/4.46.141.148
http://www.trustic.com/ip/12.212.51.189
http://www.trustic.com/ip/66.138.22.121
http://www.trustic.com/ip/12.98.2.128

The last one should be of particular interest. See I have a 0.41 trust level
now so with my single negative report the server is blacklisted, but that is
because there are -no- positive entries for the server. Basically when you
participate then your input is weighted more heavily.

-Josh


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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Sunday, July 27, 2003 you wrote:
JL I'm not trying to make this an argument.

That's funny.




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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Levitsky
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From: Smart Business Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joshua Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Sunday, July 27, 2003 you wrote:
 JL I'm not trying to make this an argument.

 That's funny.

It's snappy remarks like that which make a person not want to even offer any
help. I never initiated any personal attacks. Your remark won't make me
start doing so on this thread. I honestly wasn't trying to argue anything. I
was trying to make points, and others were making points. I felt that some
points were not entirely truthful so I made notes. None of my notes were
nasty like yours.

-Josh


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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Rifat Levis
I have been reading all the posts about TRUSTIC.

I really dont want to say ,its bad or good , because this not the right time
to make comments about.

It's a new service , the database should get bigger in time ,the site must
be popular and be used by a big number of
server admin and then WE CAN SEE HOW IT WORKS.

There are always some bugs , some tricks to abuse the site ETC.

What i can suggest is that , people interested in this service can flag
mails in the header to see
the evolution of the service, we should consider the qualtiy in time.
Today we get 100 False P.
Tommorow we can get 50 F.P  or  150 F.P


Lets wait and see :)

Regards
Rifat Levis





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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..



- Original Message - 
From: Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 7:14 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 63.149.203.45
  5 automated positive recommendations and a trusted server.
  But here they're listed on THIRTEEN separate lines
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=63.149.203.45

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=63.149.203.45+

You were one of the positives and you didn't bother to submit spam to make
it not trusted.

 pd9eb978c.dip.t-dialin.net (217.235.151.140)
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=217.235.151.140
  Dial-in, huh?  Quite a list on the other spam services.
  Trustic lists them as trusted.

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=217.235.151.140

Again you never bothered to forward spam to them. What's your point exactly
about the IP being on other lists? That has nothing to do with this list. If
every entry was on every list then you could use a single blacklist, and
that's it. Why do you use more than one blacklist??? I know I use them
because each has different things to offer and I weight tests based on what
each RBL can provide me with.

 user-0can757.cable.mindspring.com (24.171.156.167)
  another home cable modem listed like crazy but trusted at trustic
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=24.171.156.167

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=24.171.156.167

Here there was 1 default positive and 1 spam mail that you submitted. Should
they mark this a spammer simply because 1 email says a good thing and 1
email says a bad thing? That would hardly seem fair. Would you want people
not to get mail from you because the Trustic list had 1 record of good mail
a 1 record of bad mail for your server?

 61.99.1.113
  same story here
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=61.99.1.113

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=61.99.1.113

Again you never bothered to submit a spam report. How can you complain
without bothering to report spam?

 pcp03063004pcs.newlaf01.mi.comcast.net ( 68.41.175.131 )
  home dsl cable IP

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=68.41.175.131

Again you never bothered to submit a spam report. How can you complain?

 pcp515079pcs.nash01.tn.comcast.net ( 68.53.145.237 )
  home dsl cable IP

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=68.53.145.237

This is another where there is one spam (from you) and one positive from
another person. Not sure why they would block a host on only that data so of
course it is trusted.

 d.hm02.com ( 207.158.1.214 )
  4 positive *automated* entries, but listed in SpamCop and sent me
 spam

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=207.158.1.214

Here there are 4 positives and 2 negatives. Why wouldn't this be trusted?

 mm12.metamailoffers.com ( 207.134.3.243 )
  read the domain name.  Wonder what they do.
  They also have two automated favorable positives

http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=207.134.3.243

2 positives to your 1 negative.


 What does it all mean?  First of all I don't care how smart the guy is
 who founded this system.  Trustic as it presently performs doesn't
 belong in my production environment, which the Trustic people are up
 front about, at least (betas after all should be used only in
 development and staging environments).  From what I can see the system
 should be labeled more of a public alpha, rather than a beta.  It has
 holes which you can drive a mail truck through.

More like you don't really understand how a trust system should work. This
isn't meant to use blacklists from other people. This is meant to be a
circle of trust. If people get mail and never bother to submit spam then the
hosts that send the mail are trusted. You didn't bother to submit spam to
some of the very hosts you are complaining are trusted.

I'm not trying to make this an argument. I'm really just trying to offer
counter points to what I feel is flawed logic. I am going to stop now as I
don't want this to be a war. If anyone needs any help using Trustic feel
free to contact me off-list. I encourage any of you that try it to submit
feedback on the site one way or the other. I'm sure they will take all
feedback 

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread brian

Why don't you guys give it a rest. 

 
On 07/27/03 8:53pm you wrote...
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To: Joshua Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..


 Sunday, July 27, 2003 you wrote:
 JL I'm not trying to make this an argument.

 That's funny.

It's snappy remarks like that which make a person not want to even offer any
help. I never initiated any personal attacks. Your remark won't make me
start doing so on this thread. I honestly wasn't trying to argue anything. I
was trying to make points, and others were making points. I felt that some
points were not entirely truthful so I made notes. None of my notes were
nasty like yours.

-Josh


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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Robertson
http://www.trustic.com/ip?ip=63.149.203.45+
You were one of the positives and you didn't bother to submit spam to
make
it not trusted.

Wrong repeatedly.  I sent spam to them as I've already said.  All of it
at one point.

As you later note this is becoming a pi$$ing match and that doesn't
belong here.  This is a technical discussion and lets keep it that way.

Part of what is now clearly confusion here stemmed from the (your?)
original recommendation to use the pos ip4r test.  A careful reading of
the Trustic DNS Query information shows this to be the opposite of what
you're supposed to do.  My fault for not reading the docs carefully and
pulling code out of a list message.  If you follow the path of the mail
when using that test coupled to a mail filter program like Declude
you'll see that mail gets counted twice, assuming you use ROUTETO to
send spam back to Trustic.

Perhaps when using the proper ip4r test the system isn't so screwed up.
Was it you who recommended the pos ip4r test for use with Declude?


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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Jason Newland
All tiffs aside  :),

Can I get some clarity on the operation here?  If I personally submit an
e-mail that says 10.10.10.10 is a spammer IP, and that same address has
10 positives and 1 negative (Me).  I understand that the IP will
probably be trusted, but is there something in the background that when
I do a lookup that returns a fail?  Since I, the person asking has
submitted the only negative.  Conversely, a non-submitter would get a
pass on that IP since they are going on what others are saying?

Sorry if that is confusing

Also, there is a TON of things on the documentation side of things that
still need to be filled out on the site (yes I have sent them the
recommendations),.  Let's just hope they are responsive.


And finally, this seems like it will get better with user
participation



Jason

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[Declude.JunkMail] Massive flood of uncaught spam

2003-07-27 Thread Scott MacLean
Starting Friday night, most of the users of the various domains on my 
server have been complaining of a massive flood of spam. I would say the 
spam traffic I have seen has easily tripled or quadrupled this weekend. 
It's unreal. I myself have received over 800 spam emails in the past 24 
hours. The main problem is that Declude is catching much less of it than it 
usually does. The only tests they are failing is IPNOTINMX, and not much 
else. The spam is not from a single source - it seems like all the spammers 
suddenly decided to send tons of this crap out at once, and whatever they 
have done is sidestepping my Declude setup.

Is anyone else seeing this?
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