> From:  Len Conrad
>
> >So, he is rejecting over 2 legit messages for
> >every one accepted.
>
> Do really think that is really happening?

Not really.  But, why do you think you are getting 84% (or higher) spam
while the internet as a whole only sees 50-60%?

>
> >And if youwhitelist these two addresses, you are letting in tons of spam
> >anyway.
>
> In practice, there really isn't a proble that I've heard about  from
IMGate
> admins nor seen myself, or anywhere else for that matter, in having these
> two recipients unfiltered.  Spammers don't seem to think postmaster@ and
> abuse@ are going to give them any payback, duh.

We average 50-60 spams per email address per day.  probably 40-50% include
either postmaster or abuse in the CC and dropping them from our witelist
meant 2-3 in each mailbox per day, instead of about 30 (actually one user
said she was getting about 70 a day, due to inclusion on group boxes).  But,
we don't drop just on a single test. And give little weight to tests that
block by class, rather than confirmed problems.

The payback of adding those two can be huge, if your spam protection can't
break out multiple copies of a message, one for each recipient (which causes
other problems, to be sure).

K

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