Re: Every spam is sacred
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> a tapoté :
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:37, Jesus Climent wrote:
> > > account via Debian machines, I guess the reduction in bandwidth usage
> > > by master and murphy is not to be taken lightly.
> >
> > The bandwidth reduction will only happen if you decide to discard the mail,
> > since the mail will always be accepted, scanned to find the IP which
> > originated the message, the IP will be checked agains the database and then
> > the mail will be tagged.
>
> The usual implementation of DNSBL systems is to check the client IP address as
> soon as the TCP connection comes in, and disconnect with an appropriate error
> message if it's an IP address that you don't like.
>
> That saves a lot of bandwidth, and the mail is not discarded, it is left on
> the sending machine to be bounced in an appropriate manner back to the
> sender.
I think you missed the point: tagging mails is fine to everybody but
not blocking/discarding/bouncing mails (that can be done later, by
user, with their procmailrc).
So as only tagging will be done, no bandwidth will be saved.
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