From: "Geo." 

I've fond rbls only stop about 20% of the spam. rword filters we use stop
about 70% so by putting the two together we only have that last 10% to deal
with.

Geo.

"Douglas Smith"  wrote in message
news:MPG.197a783c8c4042079896f8{at}news.barkto.com...
> 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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