Spam to this list

2005-03-25 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, I'm not sure what the policy of this list is and I bet everyone has a spam filter, so nobody might have noticed, but we got spammed. Can anyone send mail to the list or do you have to subscribe first ? -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm b

Spam to this list

2005-04-17 Thread Christian Nekvedavicius
Unfortunately I must report that legitimate emails are also blocked by sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.   After exchanging a number of private emails with [EMAIL PROTECTED], my next answer was blocked without reason at all.   [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.s

Re: Spam to this list

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Bonds
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:42:19 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers dag-at-wieers.com |Rsync List| <...> wrote: > I'm not sure what the policy of this list is and I bet everyone has a spam > filter, so nobody might have noticed, but we got spammed. > > Can anyone send mail to the list or do you have to subscrib

Re: Spam to this list

2005-03-25 Thread Martin Pool
John Van Essen wrote: Off list to rsync list owner (feel free to reply on-list if you like): On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm not sure what the policy of this list is and I bet everyone has a spam filter, so nobody might have noticed, but we got spammed. The policy

Re: Spam to this list

2005-03-26 Thread John E. Malmberg
Martin Pool wrote: John Van Essen wrote: The policy is to block as much spam as possible without blocking legitimate posts. A 100% solution is impossible, even if we had human moderation (humans make mistakes). I am seeing reports on news.admin.net-abuse.email from Steve Linford that he is gett

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-17 Thread John E. Malmberg
Christian Nekvedavicius wrote: Unfortunately I must report that legitimate emails are also blocked by sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org. If you e-mails are being blocked by a sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org listing then you should be complaining loudly to your network provider. It my help if you find out what list(s) th

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
John E. Malmberg wrote: The I.P. address is listed in bl.spamcop.net as hitting spamtraps. Just so you know, spamcop view bounces as spam. According to them, you should never send bounces. I believe the right approach is to convince admins to drop spamcop from their RBL list, rather than remove t

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Slootman
Continuing this off-topic issue: On Mon 18 Apr 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > John E. Malmberg wrote: > > >The I.P. address is listed in bl.spamcop.net as hitting spamtraps. > > Just so you know, spamcop view bounces as spam. According to them, you > should never send bounces. I believe the rig

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-18 Thread John E. Malmberg
Shachar Shemesh wrote: John E. Malmberg wrote: The I.P. address is listed in bl.spamcop.net as hitting spamtraps. Just so you know, spamcop view bounces as spam. According to them, you should never send bounces. I think you will find a large amount of mail server administrators agree with that, e

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
John E. Malmberg wrote: The essential SMTP NACK is not what is the problem as long as it is done during the SMTP connection using reject codes. Issuing a SMTP reject code for undeliverable messages will never cause a spamcop.net listing. Reject codes were very common once. Then they were recomm

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-19 Thread Alun
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Reject codes were very common once. Then they were recommended > against. They were recommended against for a reason, that reason > being that they expose the user base to password and other guessing. Who recommended this

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alun wrote: Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Reject codes were very common once. Then they were recommended against. They were recommended against for a reason, that reason being that they expose the user base to password and other guessing. Who reco

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Gideon
Paul Slootman wrote: > There's a difference between giving a 5xx response during SMTP, and > first accepting a message and then later bouncing it to the (supposed) > envelope sender. I believe spamcop is protesting the latter, not the > first. I agree with them. 20% of the junk I get are bogus bou

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 19 Apr 2005, Andrew Gideon wrote: > Paul Slootman wrote: > > > There's a difference between giving a 5xx response during SMTP, and > > first accepting a message and then later bouncing it to the (supposed) > > envelope sender. I believe spamcop is protesting the latter, not the > > first. I