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Re: Every spam is sacred



* Santiago Vila (sanvila@unex.es) wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm having a nice discussion with debian-admin. It started when I
> asked them to add ": sbl.spamhaus.org/warn : list.dsbl.org/warn"
> to the rbl_domains variable in master's exim.conf.
> 
> This would tag messages coming from IPs listed in the SBL and DSBL
> (two well known DNS Blocking Lists) by adding a X-RBL-Warning: header
> to them, which will serve to evaluate whether or not using them in
> /reject mode would really produce an unacceptable number of false
> positives, as debian-admin claims.
> 
> [ I estimate that we could easily get rid of 50% of all spam
>   by just using those two lists, with negligible false positives
>   if these lists follow their listing criteria ].

Actually, the spam content on debian-devel has been cuit dramatically in
the last couple months. It doesn't receive nearly as much spam as it
used to. I belive the list admins are using spamasassin now or
something. Whatever it is, it's working much better, though some spam
still gets through.

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