[Gllug] OSS Spam filtering, virus scanning email solutions

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 11 Jan, Nix wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2007, Martin A. Brooks verbalised:
> > 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.
> 
> Bah, that's nothing. I've had mail rejected on the basis that *.uk are
> spammers before. (Justin Mason has reported having the same experience
> with .ie addresses.)

> 
> There is no policy so moronic that someone, somewhere, isn't using and
> advocating it as a mail blocking policy. (Although *generally* policies
> like `reject all mails with the letter `p' in the body' are bugs.)
> 

   About 50% of emails received here from the APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC
areas are replies to spam reports, the rest is 100% spam.

-- 
Chris Bell

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