Re: Sex spam again on the list

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 08:36:30 +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote:
> > For directly blocking mail however, you'd be better of using the
> > zen.spamhaus.org combined blocklist wich is very effective and has  
> > almost
> > no false positives. I don't know how they do it, but it catches  
> > 90% of my
> > spam on it's own. More info can be found on http://www.spamhaus.org
>
> The proiblem of using RBLs on SMTP-time is that the mail is gone,
> nevertheless it was UCE or not.

That's true, although the sending server will generate a bounce back  
to the sender.  So the mail doesn't disappear down a black hole, at  
least.