[Gllug] OSS Spam filtering, virus scanning email solutions

[Martin A. Brooks]

John G Walker wrote:
> 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

Actually, it's worse than that.  To loosely follow your analogy:

"I received some junk mail from Bolton, therefore I'll unconditionally 
reject all mail that originates from there and the surrounding area.  
There and the surrounding area being defined by someone I don't know who 
can arbitrarily shrink or grow this surrounding area without consulting me."

As my work colleagues can hopefully confirm, I don't often use 
profanity, so please don't misunderstand me when I say: people who use 
third party blacklists as a definitive guide to which mails should be 
accepted ,or not, are fucking stupid.  It's sheer idiocy.


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