Re: Every spam is sacred
Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > IMHO, the best of both worlds is blocking the *completely* obvious
> > spam (open relays, etc. like the DSBL does) and filtering the rest.
>
> A message sent via these bad ISP is a "completely obvious spam"? I
> would be happy to share this simplistic approach.
You are the one being simplistic.
Please go to http://dsbl.org and read about it.
> But people cannot always select by themselves their tools (employee in
> a company... etc ; see the example below). Usually, they can at their
> option use hotmail (woaw, what a recommendation) or yahoo. But it's a
> workaround.
>
> A workaround for the problem this policy creates: at the contrary of
> what you said, you rarely can say whether a mail is spam or not just
> with an IP.
For some IPs, yes, I can, with 99.95% of confidence.
You have to be aware that these IPs are not the ones that people normally
use to deliver their email (i.e the IP of your ISP's SMTP server).
> The best to me is filtering mail according to their content
> only. Because I do not think possible to determine "completely obvious
> mail" so easily, accurately (SPEWS seems more honnest in their goal,
> not pretending that they'll harm only guilty ones). But it takes more
> CPU time.
My advice has not changed: Please go to http://dsbl.org and read about it.
> An example:
> Last summer, I had to use AOL for a month. AOL at many regards could
> be in list of bad ISP that do not care at all of spam (no answer by
> abuse@aol... etc).
I know for sure that AOL fights spam. They even sue some spammers from
time to time. Go to their web site. It's very interesting.
> What if I had to report a bug about debian?
> Creating an account on yahoo instead of using debbugs.el in my
> favorite mail reader? Working everyday on fencepost via ssh with a 56K
> modem to avoid getting my mails refused because of my IP?
You are missing the point because you don't know how DSBL works.
Please go to http://dsbl.org and read about it.
AOL's outgoing SMTP servers are not open relays.
If debian-admin eventually gives us the opportunity to block messages
from the DSBL on a per-user basis, it's nearly impossible that a
message you send me from AOL to my @debian.org address is blocked by
master, unless AOL makes a big configuration mistake in their SMTP
servers, but they would surely fix this immediately, since many people
blocks messages coming from open relays as well.
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