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Re: Spamming the World through Open Debian Mailinglists (Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you)



Hallo! Du (Jeroen Massar) hast geschrieben:

[ JUst two corrections ]

> You claim the mailbox does 50k mails per day, and 2500 spams make it
> through the filters (cool that you know that btw, if you know it is
> spam, why don't you filter them?) Now, multiply that 2500 times the
> number of subscribers, and tada you can calculate how many spam you are
> sending, I bet it is more than the original 50k.

the 2500 mails/day that pass our filters contain about 1-2% spam (that
can be a higher percentage on low-traffic lists)

> And yes, my SMTP server and those of a lot of other people will
> CORRECTLY refuse to accept mail classified as spam and correctly give a
> 500 SMTP error code as the server will refuse to deliver it.

according to RfC2822 Chapter 3.3 blocking because of Content is
discouraged.

Yours,
        Cord, Debian Listmaster of the day
-- 
http://lists.debian.org


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