From Michael Croft, received 17/2/02, 11:12 am -0600 (GMT): > At 8:41 AM -0800 2/17/02, Robert Ameeti wrote: >>>Wouldn't it be nice if account owners could turn anti-spam filters >>>on and off themselves, remotely, just as they can change their own >>>password? >> >>No. >> > No, but for different reasons. > > In our test runs of various RBLs (more than a month for each), they stopped > exactly two pieces of mail, both legitimate, from personal contacts of our > users.
I assume you mean "in addition to stopping a truckload of spam, they also stopped 2 legit emails", if not I have to wonder which DNSBLs you were using. Use of any system to block spam, no matter how responsibly and carefully run, will occasionally block one or more items of legitimate email due to the sender mailing through a server identified as an open spam relay or major spam source. The only choice is to not block spam at all. Some of us (including me) have such a high volume of connections from servers trying to submit spam to us the whole day long that we would simply not be able to function properly without good spam blocklists. (In my own case the volume got so bad I've had to actually firewall China Telecom's IP range from even accessing port 25 on my SIMS server as the amount of connections alone was fast approaching DoS levels.) Currently there are a lot of new blocklists around, some of which are badly run, some of which intentionally want high collateral damage to force the ISPs customer to revolt, and some of which are actually people's personal lists put online and are so aggressive that even the person publishing the list doesn't use it... If you're not sure of a list then stick with the MAPS lists as they have a long track record of being responsibly run. > RBLs have a history of being run by cranks and or kooks with personal > agendas (that do not coincide with my own). Non-spammers get added to the > various lists for reasons that not even the list owners will explain. You're referring to ORBS, which was one list only. -- Steve Linford Ultradesign Xtreme Network http://www.uxn.com ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
