sean wrote:
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> How many blacklisted emails and domains do you have?  What about =
> whitelisted?
> 
> I have around 28,000 blacklisted emails now, and around 500 whitelisted =
> ones.  I was wondering how these numbers compare to others out there.

I have 287 whitelisted addresses, and 9 blacklisted addresses.

I suspect that you're adding addresses to your blacklist via some
batch process.  There isn't a whole lot of point in blacklisting
random spammers, since they've most likely faked the sender address
anyway, and will use a different fake address on the next run.  So
at best, you're just filling up your blacklist with addresses that
will never be used again.  At worst, you're allowing spammers to
prevent legitimate mail from getting to you by sending you spam that
they've forged to contain the email addresses of legitimate senders:
when you mass add the spam to the blacklist, those legitimate senders
will end up on your blacklist.

I use my blacklist to weed out messages from a domain that seems to be
generating their spam (and confirming it) by hand, and messages to a
couple of email addresses that get nothing but spam, but that's about
it.

Ed


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