[Gllug] OSS Spam filtering, virus scanning email solutions

[John G Walker]

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:26:06 +0000 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:

> On 3 Jan 2007, John G. Walker told this:
> > You don't just have to use dodgy ISPs to get on a blacklist from
> > Spamhaus, Spamcop or the like. These guys also blacklist people they
> > don't approve of (eg wrong politics).
> 
> Spamhaus don't do that. Don't confuse spamhaus with spamcop (not that
> spamcop does that either: its major problem is that it's willing to
> blacklist based on much too little data).
> 

Spamcop definitely does that. I have personal experience of this.

Apologies if I've wrongly lumped Spamhaus in with it. I still think it's
a flawed method of fighting spam. It's like, if you receive some junk
mail postmarked 'Bolton', rejecting every piece of mail from Bolton -
except that with emails, the sender postmarks the mail, so you don't
actually know where it originated,

-- 
 All the best,
 John
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