On Monday, August 12, 2002 @ 7:27:17 PM [-0700], Thomas F. wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:30:56 -0700 GMT (13/08/02, 05:30 +0700 GMT), > Matt Thoene wrote:
MT>> Caught this thread on spamassassin. The Bat will thankfully NOT be MT>> labeled as "ratware". > How professional are these people? How much power (in which ever way) > do they have? Wow, is there a full moon or something? I've posted a few messages to various lists this week and have seen just brutal responses. Unfounded at that. No they're not professionals. But they do use a piece of software that does a hell of a job on stopping spam at the server. I've seen groundswells on that list that get pretty ugly. This could have easily been one of them. MT>> Just noticed this one today. A quick grep found it 4 times in my spam MT>> archive, which is only a few days old. Improperly notated...(wasn't me who typed this) > How many messages were in the spam archive? How many messages showed > OE or OL as mailer? Why is this guy representative that his finding > would have mattered anyway? Because he knows what grep is, he is the > guru over there? > Luckily, because two people on the same list know people who use TB > and are not spammers, TB was not labeled "ratware". Wow. I am awed by > their scientific approach. He's no guru of course. He was referring to a piece of spam he received that had The Bat listed as the Mailer. He didn't recognize it and posted it. Man, why the attack? I was just sending along an informative message from another list. Sheesh. > Sorry, but if these guys have anything to say in ISPs, the internet is > doomed. They do. Spamassassin is used quite a bit in the smaller to mid-size ISP world...has been for a few years. I don't think it's doomed anything just yet. -- Matt ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
