* 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. -- .''`. Carl B. Constantine : :' : duckwing@duckwing.ca `. `' GnuPG: 135F FC30 7A02 B0EB 61DB 34E3 3AF1 DC6C 9F7A 3FF8 `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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