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Re: Close list



On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 05:53:36PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:

> It has been said in a related thread on a mailing list that shall not be
> named :) that making a DNS lookup for hosts carrying the blacklists on each
> delivery would slow it down. It has also been said that this isn't hard to
> work around, though.

It's not generally that bad - generally not even noticable when compared
to all the other delays one is likely to encounter.

> FWIW I like the X-RBL-Warning headers.

Spam to the Debian mailing lists tends to be especially annoying since
the spammers always seem to hit each and every mailing list (or at
least, a large number of them), which makes each spam much more
noticable.

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