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Re: procmail Digest, Vol 30, Issue 38

2005-07-28 12:51:18
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:46:49PM -0600, Lloyd Standish wrote:

I like your [Ruud's] idea very much. Once spam is positively
identified as coming from a given SERVER-IP, then all mail coming
from that server could automatically be assigned a degree of
suspicion.  Any legitimate email correspondents who mail is sent
by that server could be notified of the fact that their server is
a spammer.

Be careful about dynamic IPs.  I use a large ISP (T-Online, with
several million customers), and I have on rare occasion had my
dynamically assigned IP address blocked by somebody who wasn't
as smart as he thought he was being.  Very annoying.

I'd prefer a short-lived block of IPs, even one day only.
Spammers these days use zombie machines and switch IPs often.

That said, I have excellent spam blocking working with procmail-
only and no blacklists, either of domains or IPs, at present.
I am thinking of implementing a one-day IP block.

I do not run a server.  I am merely an ordinary, unprivileged
user on my Unix shell system.

Dallman

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