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to: Douglas Smith
from: Tim Boyer
date: 2003-07-12 11:34:24
subject: Re: Filtering technologies

From: Tim Boyer 

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?
>>
>>
>>

--
Tim Boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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