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| Thread ID: 125317 | 2012-06-20 05:46:00 | XTra Blacklist | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1282963 | 2012-06-22 03:52:00 | It FORCES the ISP to start actually doing something about its customers who are spamming, these customers may not even now they are spamming after being hacked, viruses etc etc The spam came from the ISP's 'email sever' , hence it got blocked. It not the job of the blacklist compilers to sort this out. From Erayd's Spamhaus link "Instead of rejecting messages that do not pass the Spamhaus test, many Receivers tag such messages. Tagged messages are then either placed in a 'Junk' mailbox or are put through further, more processor-intensive spam filters (such as SpamAssassin, etc.). Spamhaus does however recommend that networks using the Spamhaus DNSBLs reject (bounce) rather than simply trash incoming emails from IP Addresses listed on a Spamhaus database. The reason for this is that rejecting email (with a hard '5**' during the SMTP phase and before the email body is accepted) maintains the fundemental rule of email deliverability: If an email can not be delivered *always let the Sender know*." Are the volumes of spam from local ISPs so great that the option of tagging isn't used? Unless the address didn't exist I've never had a bounced email so I don't know how local networks handle that aspect. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1282964 | 2012-06-22 04:20:00 | A few admins & spamfilter providers take a hard line on spam ie : if its flagged, It just gets blocked. Too bad. I can understand, not sending bounce messages for email flagged as spam (ie from blacklisted servers) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1282965 | 2012-06-22 04:22:00 | A few admins & spamfilter providers take a hard line on spam ie : if its flagged, It just gets blocked. Too bad. I can understand, not sending bounce messages for email flagged as spam (ie from blacklisted servers) True |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1282966 | 2012-06-22 05:08:00 | A few admins & spamfilter providers take a hard line on spam ie : if its flagged, It just gets blocked. Too bad. I can understand, not sending bounce messages for email flagged as spam (ie from blacklisted servers) Without a bounce how does this work "if the operator of that server cares about their users and keeps an eye on bounce stats, it should be obvious *very* quickly, and they will take corrective action to resolve the issue."? There's a fine line between hardline and techie pissing contests. I can remember ORBS and how that was run. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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