[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Bader) wrote on 24.12.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > <flame war>
> > Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
> > </flame war>
>
> GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't
> deleted, but rather just gets a header added saying `this message is
> considered suspicious'. That allows individual recipients to do as they
> see fit.
Yes, they use Exim on Debian to do that. I recently investigated a
filtered-out mail from some GNU mailing list at work and noticed that it
had gone through maybe half a dozen systems, every single one running Exim
on Debian (it got the header because it was sent directly from a dialup).
Currently I ignore these headers for mailing lists since I've had several
mailing lists temporarily come from hosts listed in one of these things.
The most embarassing case was the list working on the next release of the
mail standards (RFC 821/822); the mailing list host (an uni) was a wide-
open relay for months ("We need that for our faculty" or some such
nonsense).
MfG Kai
