On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:37:07PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > Then why are we going to use resources to scan it in the first place? > The only reason this discussion is happening is because the only > rationale for adding this header is to then move to full rejecting. Because that's when it makes sense to do it. During the SMTP conversation. If we don't do it then, then the indivuduals who do decide to filter their mail are going to have to parse the mail headers and do their own lookups. Parsing the header isn't hard, and SpamAssassin (and others, no doubt) already does that, but why bother if we don't have to? And if we make the clients do the blacklist lookups, we're generating more traffic for the blacklist servers. > I agree that if it's only about adding a header, this isn't a big > deal, although I agree with debian-admin in that we don't need to use > the extra bandwidth. It's already been stated that DSBL allows their zone to be transferred via rsync, so we can run a local mirror of their blacklist. Thus, minimal bandwidth usage. Frankly, I just don't believe that any of the arguments against this proposal hold up. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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