RE: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.
This topic should be dead by now. There are other questions that are
other threads that are actually worth replying to in which people really
need help in, instead of keeping this ridiculous email going.
-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten Self [mailto:karsten@guildenstern.dyndns.org] On Behalf Of
Karsten M. Self
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:47 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.
on Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 07:59:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb (grey@dmiyu.org)
wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:23:59 +0200
> David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl> wrote:
> > I'm using SA. It's just that I don't mind C-R and like the general
> > concept, but I see many people who's opinions I value and who's
mails
> > I'd rather not send to /dev/null would not respond to a challenge,
> > either out of principle, annoyance or feasibility.
>
> Now that I've spent the past several minutes ranting against C-R I
can
> think of one instance where it would be useful. SA scored mail
between, say,
> 5 and 8. That marginal stuff. Switch it to temp reject but send a
C-R. The
> 5-8 stuff from my server is ~22 in ~2600. Of that, so far, there have
been 0
> false positives. However in the rare case of a false positive it
would allow
> the person on the other side to get through if needed. IE, the vast
majority
> of spam is blocked and no message generated to clutter my queue. The
vast
> majority of real messages get through. It is only that grey area of
<1% where
> messages need to be sent out and of that less than .1% (I'd wager)
would
> actually hit someone. *That* would be an appropriate use, IMHO.
And this is more legitimate than you scanning the messages yourself, and
adding the addresses to your whitelist or spamlist, appropriately, how?
Peace.
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