[112426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Feb 25 23:34:28 2009
In-Reply-To: <18854.5522.422745.897076@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:04:09 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> I suggested that probably 99% of the false positives I see could be
> avoided by just waiting until there are two or more complaints from
> the same source before firing it back as spam.
And the trouble is - that can and will be gamed by "horizontally
scaling" spammers.
Misreports of the sort you describe shouldnt trigger blocks anyway.