On Friday 17 October 2008, Michael Scheidell wrote: >> Is this really necessary for yahoo.com generated e-mail? >> >> 0.2 DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE RBL: Envelope sender in abuse.rfc-ignorant.org >> 1.4 DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS RBL: Envelope sender in whois.rfc-ignorant.org >> 1.7 DNS_FROM_RFC_POST RBL: Envelope sender in postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org > >Run sa-update on recent versions of SA and it will automatically drop those >scored. > >Long time ago, in a land far away, GOOD site admins actually had working >abuse@ and postmater@ addresses. > >Long ago, ICANN used to delist domains that had broken or unreachable whois >contact information. > >So, long ago, ignorant, stupid or lazy was a good indication of spam >sources. >Today, it indicates yahoo.com.
Which equates to the same thing. I did have a few addresses of known spam emitters in my procmailrc, but found I had to remove one of those in spite of it being responsible for about 200 spams a day. Seems that machine was also the outbound sender for quite a few of the mailing lists yahoo maintains. Nastygrams to yahoo of course are attracted to a black hole they feed all mail addressed to 'postmaster' and 'admin', never to be seen by another human who might have a quarter to call somebody who gives a $hit. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Morality is one thing. Ratings are everything." - A Network 23 executive on "Max Headroom"
