Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-07 Thread Charles Gregory
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: Won't customers dealing with such a company will have whitelisted them long ago? For every 'mark' that is out there, stupidly entering their e-mail and then getting a bunch of ads for which they didn't realize they had given permission, there are people

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-07 Thread LuKreme
On 7-Dec-2009, at 09:03, Charles Gregory wrote: There's a need. A real genuine need for services like Habeas. But they need to be *very* well managed and policed. And it seems, from some complaints, that this is not happening How a service like HABEAS needs to work is that 1) It keeps a

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-07 Thread jdow
: LuKreme krem...@kreme.com To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Monday, 2009/December/07 09:22 Subject: Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT? On 7-Dec-2009, at 09:03, Charles Gregory wrote: There's a need. A real genuine need for services like Habeas. But they need to be *very* well managed

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-07 Thread Per Jessen
Charles Gregory wrote: There's a need. A real genuine need for services like Habeas. It almost certainly depends on your environment - like my numbers showed, over four months, I only had 45 emails that would have gone down the drain without Habeas. In comparison to what was processed that

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: Won't customers dealing with such a company will have whitelisted them long ago? For every 'mark' that is out there, stupidly entering their e-mail and then getting a bunch of ads for which they didn't realize they had given permission, there are

Re: [sa] Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-05 Thread Per Jessen
Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: The other side of the argument is - why does any legitimate company need to employ a service such as Habeas/Returnpath/whatever? Any legitimate drug company that wants to send price lists to its legitimate distributors or end

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-05 Thread Per Jessen
jdow wrote: From: Per Jessen p...@computer.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/04 09:11 rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: This was raised as the IP appeared in HABEAS and for a few hours it 'vanished' from the list. It's back there now, but DateTheUk is now pumping out via an ip six decimal

Re: [sa] Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-05 Thread jdow
From: Per Jessen p...@computer.org Sent: Saturday, 2009/December/05 02:20 Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: The other side of the argument is - why does any legitimate company need to employ a service such as Habeas/Returnpath/whatever? Any legitimate drug

Re: [sa] Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: The other side of the argument is - why does any legitimate company need to employ a service such as Habeas/Returnpath/whatever? Any legitimate drug company that

Re: [sa] Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-05 Thread Per Jessen
McDonald, Dan wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: The other side of the argument is - why does any legitimate company need to employ a service such as Habeas/Returnpath/whatever? Any

RE: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-05 Thread R-Elists
After all this debate about a negatively scored rule I'd disable it anyway, because the spammers on the list will target it specifically now, knowing it works well for them. Stucki Stucki, it seems to me that you, of all people, would want a small negative or positive score on that

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:18 -0800, jdow wrote: From: LuKreme krem...@kreme.com Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/03 20:55 On Dec 3, 2009, at 13:43, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:23 -0700, J.D. Falk wrote: On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:59 AM,

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/4/2009 10:57 AM, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: FINAL This is not a social club, it's a question and issues list for Spamassassin. My question and issue is why, by default, does Spamassassin use the HABEAS white list, and why is it out of the box set with a score to favour delivery of

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread jdow
From: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk Sent: Friday, 2009/December/04 01:57 On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:18 -0800, jdow wrote: From: LuKreme krem...@kreme.com Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/03 20:55 On Dec 3, 2009, at 13:43, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread jdow
From: Yet Another Ninja sa-l...@alexb.ch Sent: Friday, 2009/December/04 02:28 On 12/4/2009 10:57 AM, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: FINAL This is not a social club, it's a question and issues list for Spamassassin. My question and issue is why, by default, does Spamassassin use the HABEAS

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread jdow
Outlook Express spell checker, that is Procmail not your stupid substitution however apt it might be. {+_+} - Original Message - From: jdow j...@earthlink.net Sent: Friday, 2009/December/04 04:16 Heh, at this site procaine sits in front of SA. It has a few email

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 04:16 -0800, jdow wrote: From: Yet Another Ninja sa-l...@alexb.ch Sent: Friday, 2009/December/04 02:28 On 12/4/2009 10:57 AM, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: FINAL This is not a social club, it's a question and issues list for Spamassassin. My question and issue

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 11:28 +0100, Yet Another Ninja wrote: The correct answer will be precisely why this state of affairs exists. - because developers think/have thought its a good idea. - because nobody other than you makes such a noise about it. And YOU who are so against, have you

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: . 'just change the score' is not the correct answer. the answer is totally correct. No, it is not. No more than it is correct for a spammer to offer me a (working) 'unsubscribe' link. I don't want to discover I've been letting spam in the

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Qualifies what, that I get UBE that is Habeas Accredited? Should I start with the 40 from 'DateTheuk' in the last 8 days? Okay, let's be methodical. Let us indeed start with those. Did anyone else get them? If, so, how did they score? If not,

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:50 -0500, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Qualifies what, that I get UBE that is Habeas Accredited? Should I start with the 40 from 'DateTheuk' in the last 8 days? Okay, let's be methodical. Let us indeed start with those.

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Kris Deugau
jdow wrote: Color me smartassed but I want numbers not accusations. Can the rhetoric and in bland neutral terms describe what you see in terms of numbers, possible business relations, however loose, and so forth. Here's some numbers to play with: ~500K messages delivered daily (as in, passed

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: This was raised as the IP appeared in HABEAS and for a few hours it 'vanished' from the list. It's back there now, but DateTheUk is now pumping out via an ip six decimal places up on the last octet. 80.75.69.195 WHITELISTED:sa-accredit.habeas.com

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 18:11 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: This was raised as the IP appeared in HABEAS and for a few hours it 'vanished' from the list. It's back there now, but DateTheUk is now pumping out via an ip six decimal places up on the last octet.

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Okay, let's be methodical. Let us indeed start with those. Did anyone else get them? No answer. If, so, how did they score? No answer. If not, then why did only Richard get them? No answer. Point 1 - The Subject that was changed on

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Per Jessen
Charles Gregory wrote: I don't care. Spamassassin does not have an 'opinion'. It has a methodology. Umm, it also has a set of rules which essentially make up the SA opinion. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Point 4 - All that is largely irrelevant to this list, but my point of interest is why a commercial white list appears in Spamassassin with the default scores set the way they are? It's perfectly reasonable to ask. It could be expanded to

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Per Jessen
Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: After all this debate about a negatively scored rule I'd disable it anyway, because the spammers on the list will target it specifically now, knowing it works well for them. The other side of the argument is - why does any legitimate company need to employ a service

Re: [sa] Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: The other side of the argument is - why does any legitimate company need to employ a service such as Habeas/Returnpath/whatever? Any legitimate drug company that wants to send price lists to its legitimate distributors or end customers, upon request, even

Re: [sa] Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
I've just had another one to a honeypot - care of myspace. My dog does not have a myspace account. Again, this is a harvested email address. 204.16.33.75WHITELISTED:sa-accredit.habeas.com Whilst I appreciate that nobody would turn their noses up at taking $$$ from someone like

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread jdow
From: Per Jessen p...@computer.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/04 09:11 rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: This was raised as the IP appeared in HABEAS and for a few hours it 'vanished' from the list. It's back there now, but DateTheUk is now pumping out via an ip six decimal places up on the last

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-04 Thread jdow
From: Per Jessen p...@computer.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/04 11:19 Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: After all this debate about a negatively scored rule I'd disable it anyway, because the spammers on the list will target it specifically now, knowing it works well for them. The other side of