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to: Tim Boyer
from: Douglas Smith
date: 2003-07-12 20:56:18
subject: Re: Filtering technologies

From: Douglas Smith 

No sure as I was not responsible for that box when it was implemented. I
seem to recal it was MAPS.  I am more or less responsible for the back end.

- Doug.

In article ,
tim{at}denmantire.com says...
> Which one?  I mean, there are blocklists and blocklists - everything
> from the MAPS RBL, which blocks nothing but the absolute worst, to
> SPEWS.
>
> But still - last I looked, SPEWS was blocking less than 0.2% of the
> net.
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:53:32 -0500, Douglas Smith
>  wrote:
>
> >We tried that but it wasn't satisfactory because too many correspondents
> >come from places that are on the block lists.
> >
> > - Doug.
> >
> >In article ,
> >tim{at}denmantire.com says...
> >> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:33:27 -0500, Douglas Smith
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >> >Server based.  Our incoming mail goes to a BSDI unix box
with sendmail
> >> >which separates out our listproc mail and forwards it to
the list proc.
> >> >The rest of the mail is forwarded to our GroupWise SMTP
gateway where is
> >> >is preprocessed by a Win2K virus scanner program.   We
had spam assassin
> >> >running on the BSDI box, but the volume of mail was too great to be
> >> >handled by the box and we had to drop it.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > - Doug.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I assume you're already using the Blacklist feature in sendmail, and
> >> want something more?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>

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