Re: And so it begins...

On Apr 12, 2005 8:55 AM, Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I give them only a couple weeks before they drop this. This causes more
> headaches than it fixes. If you ask me, a good (or well trained rather)
> Baysian filter is the best solution to spam. On my old PC with SpamBayes it

I agree Baysian filters are the best way to handle the spam that makes
it to your inbox.  It is far better to reject the bulk of the spam at
the server level though as each ISP pays for the bandwidth that the
spam takes up.  This bandwidth is not small $$$.  That's why ISP also
subscribe to blacklists etc.  Reverse lookup and the like is just one
more arrow in the quiver.  I really doubt it will go away.


> caught about 99% of my spam with less than 1% false positives.These numbers
> are guesses. I had maybe 1 or 2 false postives a month at most.
> 
> On Apr 12, 2005 8:36 AM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, here's a new twist on the blacklist/whitelist concept.
> >
> > I just sent an email to someone. It didn't get through because the
> > recipient's ISP blocked it. Why? Because it didn't recognize me as an
> > ISP. That is, this service no longer accepts mail from "end user"
> > accounts, which pretty much includes anybody running their own SMTP
> > server over a DSL line. They give you a number of options, including
> > rerouting your mail through your ISP, or getting your ISP to change the
> > PTR record for your DSL address. Otherwise, the user has to turn off
> > spam filtering. As far as I can tell, this is purely a blacklist
> > approach, with no ability to whitelist a domain. So any small business
> > running their own SMTP server over a DSL line is subject to this kind of
> > blacklisting.
> >
> > Is this a sign of things to come?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > More info: http://www.korax.net/info/mail_reject.phtml
> >
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