[Gllug] OSS Spam filtering, virus scanning email solutions

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:53:40AM +0000, - wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Matthew Thompson <matt.thompson at actuality.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >Got a bit of a puzzle - we already have plenty of anti virus and anti
> >spam in place on our company's email system but it seems that our use of
> >the Spamhaus SBL+XBL feed is annoying some journalists who insist on
> >using dodgy russian ISPs.
> 
> So don't use them, then! Using externally managed block lists is just
> asking for trouble, anyway. They don't significantly help reduce spam
> over alternative methods, they block legitimate email, and you don't
> have any control over who gets added to the list.

So don't use them as definitive authorities, make the lookup another
datum for Spamassassin.

-- 
Bruce

Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down,
everything you did to them on the way up.
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