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Re: Re: step by step deploment

2004-01-22 09:56:03
In <0HRW00FSOEF3K4(_at_)lmco(_dot_)com> "Thomas R. Stephenson" 
<tstephen(_at_)mtshasta(_dot_)lmms(_dot_)lmco(_dot_)com> writes:

On 22 Jan 2004 ty lammy <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com> wrote:

[...]                             When I was rejecting i'd estimate 95% 
of the invalid EHLOs were spam.

Is a 5% false alarm rate acceptable to the users?  management?  anybody?

That is 5% false positive rate for those systems that send invalid
HELO strings.  If, say, 5% off all email comes from such mailers, then
the overall false positive rate would be only 0.25%.  That *may* be
low enough for many people (not for me), but it could likely be
reduced further by local whitelistings of known sources of good email
from badly configured machines.


-wayne

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