question for the listmasters - bounce threshold?
I get a warning from the Debian listservers once in a while that my
server is bouncing messages and that:
"If those bounces pass a certain threshold, our bounce-detection will
forcibly remove your subscription."
They also nicely (unlike a lot of list server setups) provide a link to
the bounce so I can read it.
In every case, it's due to BLATENT spam getting onto the lists that my
SA setup is rejecting at delivery-time.
They do kindly "offer" a solution:
"If you are using 'Before-Queue Content filtering' and you think that
this mail is wrong, you should whitelist liszt.debian.org from Content
filtering."
But that's not a solution. The Debian lists according to my logs are by
FAR the worst lists I'm on for allowing spam through, and if my
ULTRA-simple SA setup can stop these things...
Well anyway...
I'm certainly not going to whitelist Debian while it's still my highest
source of spam. But the message doesn't indicate the ACTUAL number of
bounces that are required before a removal happens.
Anyone ever hit the real number and know how many it takes? I've tried
replying to and/or contacting the Listmasters in other polite ways and
never receive a response.
Is it a big secret what the real thresholds are?
I read their message this way:
"We can't keep even simple spam off our lists, but we've implemented
automatic bounce removal. Please don't filter at delivery time."
To which I say... meh. Just let it fail and take me off the list if you
can't do as simple a setup as mine is here... I have nothing fancy going
on... and don't use any of the "super aggressive" anti-spam measures.
Just "normal" ones.
Nate
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