[Gllug] spam

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Sat 10 Aug, Jim Bailey made the following spurious claims:

> It accepts or rejects mail based on regexp recipies in a hashed file.
> the advantages of this AFAIK is that it uses less resources than
> excepting a email then testing it before rejecting it.

Reducing resource usage is at the expense of clear, understandable
bounce messages for false-positives.  Most people don't read more than
the Subject of bounces and conclude "John Smith's mail is bouncing"
rather than read through and find "Content Rejected".  This means you
can lose a lot of mail and have people telling you your mail is
bouncing.

MANY MTAs also don't even provide all the headers received from the
remote host.

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Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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