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Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:59:41 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: blocking msgs at SCOUG server (was: Magic blocker box)

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Steven Levine wrote:
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> Our spam load will go way down once I turn on RBL checking.

Wait. The consensus at the meetings was that we weren't going to block
spam. I don't mind if you tag it and send it on its way, and let the
recipient filter on the tag.

FWIW, I run OS/2 SendMail for outgoing mail on my dynamic DHCP
connection. If I'm assigned an IP that is blocked, I can't post to the
SCOUG lists. This has already happened twice; my ISP (Verizon)
suggested reconnecting until I received an unblocked IP.

The spam isn't a list problem, it's a user account problem -- for
example, you can send mail to user account peter@scoug.com and spam does
arrive at that mailbox -- but I have plenty of filtering here.

The difficulty is "false positivies". If you block the message then
I'll never see it, even the good ones which I want.

Tag the messages all you want to, but don't block them.

- Peter

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