Hello. Is anyone there?
Jeff Kinz
jkinz at kinz.org
Tue Jul 8 12:54:50 EDT 2003
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:29:08PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> First off, I neglected to apologize for the snafu in my last message. Yes
> it really was my spam filtering that was causing the problem.
>
> But I really do think that it's somewhat important to find out why easynet
> thinks that gnhlug.org is a spammer?
No, its not important to do that because there will always be another
RBL list somewhere which is also broken, especially since RBL's are
proliferating at an increasing rate.
All it does is demonstrate that the concept of RBL's (as currently
implemented), are broken and not reliable.
Bayesian filtering programs such as Bogofilter (see sourceforge)
not only do a better job, in my experience they produce fewer false
positives. No RBL is needed.
I concede that some form of publically or widely participated in "trust
metric" measuement might do a good job of creating a dependable RBL but
that would require a great deal more effort and watchdog mechanism than
is currently being expenede. I doubt it would ever happen and they
would still not stop spammer who move rapidly from ISP to ISP.
Bogofilter and similar tools can and does stop them, but based soley on
the content of the email and customized to your personal idea of what
spam is.
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