I've got a user who continues to spam me. I have their domain whitelisted, but their specific address on the blacklist. Yet, their email still gets through. What's up?
Bob ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "David A. Ulevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:27:29 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Instead of bounce an explanation to the sender > <quote who="Harry Zink"> > > Why explain it to the sender when: > > > > - this will give the spammers a clue on how to get around the filer. > > - this would only (if at all) be read by spammers, since there are zero > > positives in this case. > > > > Please read the archives, this scenario has been discussed. > > Spammers who take the time to whitelist themselves are a known > issue...they already know how to get around it...there is nothing > currently in TMDA other than human intervention to deal with this. > > In the past, Jason and the list's concensus seems to have been that TMDA > is a human-managed system *anyways* and so this is not a problem > since you should be watching your white/black lists anyways. > > If a spammer takes the time to get into your whitelist (which almost > none will) then that's okay and you just blacklist them for good > after the first infraction. You can also run some bayesian filters > to catch any riff-raff which ever get through if you're that concerned. > > Despite what some people think, TMDA and Bayesian filters fulfill two > seperate and important needs and using both is not a contradiction or > duplication of effort although it may seem that way at times. > > -davidu > > ---------------------------------------------------- > David A. Ulevitch > Washington University in St. Louis > http://david.ulevitch.com -- http://everydns.net > ---------------------------------------------------- > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users ------- End of Original Message ------- _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
