On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Bill Cole wrote: > At 1:04 PM -0500 3/25/03, ted crane imposed structure on a stream of > electrons, yielding: > > >Although I'm interested in commentary about SPEWS decision to > >list Yahoo (justifiable in that spam *is* originating there, > >but questionable in terms of disservice to a very large user > >community) ... > > It is absolutely reasonable given what SPEWS claims to be and has > shown itself to be. This is ezxactly what one should expect as an > outcome of using SPERWS: you will have legitimate mail blocked. > > Personally, I wouldn't ever use SPEWS on any server where the users > value their mail at all. It's a list designed to block enough > legitimate mail to annoy legitimate users into action.
Yep, SPEWS is quite radical, and block way to much good mail. It makes itself worthless to anyone with a varied customer base, IMHO. -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ############################################################# 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]>
