[Nottingham] Tux Games Antispam - Your message is being held

[Alan Pope]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:19:49PM +0000, Martin wrote:
> So you still generate your little bit to add to the general spam?
> 

How so? Someone mails me, their mail goes to their mail server which 
attempts to send to my mail server. If I have never had a mail from them 
before then my mail server tells their mail server to resend, after a period 
of time my mail server accepts the resent mail. The end user doesn't see 
that, how is that spam?

> And can you be 100% sure that your spam-traps have not also junked valid
> honest mail?
> 

No. But that doesn't bother me as much as it might bother others. That's a 
decision I've taken and it only affects me, nobody else is put out by this.

> And can you be sure that you are not yourself victim to your own or your
> 'greylisting' overzealous filtering (censorship?)?
> 

Not sure I understand your question.

> I know a certain mail list that very nearly didn't get off the ground
> because a certain ISP's anti-spam junked all the (phishing-like?) invites...
>

As I said, it's not perfect, and it's just for me and my wifes mail, not 
anyone else. 
 
> And so the question remains: What is there that solves or at the very
> least removes the present spam/phishing email mess?
> 

As I said, I use a combination of greylisting _and_ spamassasin. I just flat 
our don't see spam or phishing mails.

Cheers,
Al.