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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger
Stevenson
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:56 PM
To: 'Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy'
Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Do we need a blacklist feature?
-----Original Message-----
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:43 PM
To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy
Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Do we need a blacklist feature?
Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> I've been working with ASSP, and I've wondered if a "blacklist"
> feature would be usefull.
>
> Whereas the whitelist confirms VALID senders that one wishes to
> accept, would it be usefull to have a blacklist for VALID senders you
> wish to refuse? (but later may wish to re-enable)
What is it you think you would like to accomplish? Either its ham or it
spam (or perhaps worthy of no-processing).
> This is based on my assumption that forwarding a message to assp-spam@
> tells assp that this TYPE of message is bad, while sending to
> assp-notspam@ tells assp that this TYPE of message is ok.
Either you want it or you dont. How can a source be "valid" yet you
wish to block them?
> I would hate to teach ASSP that a certain sender is bad sometimes, but
> ok other times.
If there are certain things that come in that you dont want to get into
your ham corpus, then perhaps you should look into the no-processing
features.
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>I have an example: I have had an ex-boyfriend/husband sort with a yahoo
account bugging an employee. We needed to block
>his email without blocking all of Yahoo. I did this at the Symantec AV
Gateway server, but if the "Blacklisted Domains"
>could take individual addresses I could have blocked him there.
>Roger S
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You can put them in the "Expression to Identify Sender You Want To Block
at Any Cost*" It will simply drop the connection.
Ged
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