On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:39:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:26:35AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
>> 
>> We might disable the RBL based rules in flagging spam; they do seem to
>> have a rather high false-positive rate.
>
>Whether it's appropriate for the xpert list to partipcate in the
>social pressure aspect of DNSBLs (RBL is a trademark of MAPS BTW), or
>not, I will not comment, but just keep in mind that one of the reasons
>for building (some at least) DNSBLs is to exact a social pressure on
>the owner of the listed host[1].

I'm not particularly interested in using these lists to apply social
pressure.  I'm only interested in a mechanism that provides an acceptably
low level of spam without imposing subscriber-only posting restrictions.

David
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David Dawes
Release Engineer/Architect                      The XFree86 Project
www.XFree86.org/~dawes
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