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Re: Almost off topic
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> [sniped a little to make it shorter]
> I have such a filter on plasma-gate, but have to say that lately, the time spent
> on maintaining the steadily-growing reject list has begun to be comparable to
> the time needed to click on the "Delete" button of my mailer - there appear a
> few new spam originations every day. And you can't just do the rejection on a
> per-host basis - for example, there are dozens of spam lists on hotmail.com,but
> thousands of innocent people have their mail account there, too. So you end up
> building a complicated From/Subject/... regex list, and it's very easy to do a
> mistake - once I defined a bit more general than required regex rule to prevent
> "Make money fast" messages, and only few weeks later discovered that one guy
> from our group is a passionate numismatist and hadn't gotten few private e-mails
> with very similiar subjects :). Etc. So I feel more and more like centralized
> blacklists is a bad idea; and for the personal use, the default policy should be
> "deny all" instead of "allow all", so to say. Then you add addresses of your
> friends and maillists you're subscribed to to an equivalent of "hosts.allow" and
> bounce all the rest to the sender asking to add a special keyword to a header.
> If someone really wants to contact you, he'll do that. And spammers won't bother
> themselves reading the bounces.
I strongly recommend anyone that is running a mail server to add rules to
support Paul Vixie's RBL project (Realtime Blackhole List).
from http://maps.vix.com/rbl:
"Welcome to the home page of the MAPS (the Mail Abuse Protection System)
RBL (our Realtime Blackhole List). The MAPS RBL is a system for creating
intentional network outages for the purpose of limiting the transport of
known-to-be-unwanted mass e-mail. The MAPS RBL is a subscription system,
such that no one is ever denied connectivity to a non-RBL-subscriber."
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