On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:30:51 +0100 Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As an author of one of the anti-spam abstracts Mr. Packard mentioned I can't help but comment here.En/na David Dawes ha escrit:
All I can really say so far without having analysed the data is that
the number of false positives has been relatively small compared to
Zero false positives is the only acceptable result, if you're using it to discard email.
You won't get that with any of blacklists.
IMHO blacklist systems are unethical because they work by holding ISP customers as hostages. The idea being, if you tick off enough people, they'll complain and get the ISP to fix their relays. The collateral damage due to this approach far outweighs any benefit gained by blocking spam.
I'll pretend this list is a democracy, and cast my imaginary vote for deactivating the RBL checks in SpamAssassin.
BTW, the archives of this list make up a sizeable portion of the email corpus we use to train and test our systems. Thanks, everybody ;-)
Regards,
Scott Long
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