[69491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Postmaster, hostmaster etc....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Mon Apr 12 19:01:51 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:00:55 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040412215358.GB1602@snowcrash.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Niels Bakker wrote:
> * lists-nanog@silverwraith.com (Avleen Vig) [Mon 12 Apr 2004, 06:56 CEST]:
> > Forward abuse@ for all domains to just one account.
> > Repeat for each role account.
> > Run spam assassin, or other spam limitting software of your choice
> > (realize that false positives are possible).
>
> Possible? Make that very likely, as reports of UCE/UBE generally
> include the original mail. Those *will* trip word counters and bayesian
> spam filters like SpamAssassin.
There should be options to override this (there are in spamassassin) to
whitelist from domains (eg spamcop.net) and to addresses (eg abuse@). You must
do this else as you say you will drop a lot of the complaints.. most do include
the original spam, and those that dont are useless anyway!
Steve
