[57887] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open relays and open proxies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Fri Apr 25 15:22:01 2003
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:17:56 -0400
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030425190051.GA74539@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Friday, April 25, 2003 3:00 PM -0400 Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
wrote:
> The tools inside spam assassin, baysean(sp?) filtering, fingerprint
> checks of known spam messages, filtering of known spam identifiers
> is both more effective at actually catching the spam, and it's also
> much better at not wacking legitimate messages. Listing services
> are yesterday's technology, and frankly, have failed in their end
> goal. The community needs to push forward with more advanced tools,
> like the fingerprinting software.
I agree in general, but don't tar all dnsbl's with the spamcop and other
subjective-list 's brush
