Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 6/29/2015 1:37 PM, jdow wrote: Ted, there is one ISP who insisted on blocking all emails sent from my system because the internal network is "odd". It's not "localhost.localdomain" or whatever it was they were looking for. And it appears on my email headers. They decided "wizardess.wiz" is a

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-29 Thread jdow
Ted, there is one ISP who insisted on blocking all emails sent from my system because the internal network is "odd". It's not "localhost.localdomain" or whatever it was they were looking for. And it appears on my email headers. They decided "wizardess.wiz" is an illegal domain so the email from

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 6/27/2015 4:02 AM, Noel Butler wrote: Although what you describe is a "workaround", the key is to keep your house in order so you don't get listed, especially if you have not actually fixed up the problem, Oh Noel, why are you giving me fish in a barrel to shoot? OK, now that you put your

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-27 Thread Noel Butler
Although what you describe is a "workaround", the key is to keep your house in order so you don't get listed, especially if you have not actually fixed up the problem, DNBSBL's are just like local sys admins, they get tired of adding in /32's after /32's for the same @$#holes, thats when the /32

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.06.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: Heh Heh Heh Heh Heh Since you and Charles have obviously never done this before why do you feel qualified to comment? *lol* Go ahead and not do this based on these logic castles you have built that are not founded on any experience of realit

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Heh Heh Heh Heh Heh Since you and Charles have obviously never done this before why do you feel qualified to comment? Go ahead and not do this based on these logic castles you have built that are not founded on any experience of reality. Your customers will be suffering for a few days while yo

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.06.2015 um 21:28 schrieb Charles Sprickman: One thing to keep in mind is that you may need to rotate your spare IPs in now and then. Others can correct me, but my understanding is that all the major email providers are going to treat an IP that regularly sends email to them very differ

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-23 Thread Charles Sprickman
all number of recipients have been getting bounce-unsubscribed a >>> community mailing list that I administer. The most recent bounces say >>> that this "blocked using Barracuda Reputation; >>> http://www.barracudanetworks.com/reputation/"; Visiting that page >&

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.06.2015 um 14:57 schrieb Jered Floyd: The form does seem to have worked, and I'm not currently on the BRBL, although this morning I got bounces from a Barracuda customer for a very benign message with "rejected due to spam content," so who knows. I wish there was better visibility into t

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-23 Thread Jered Floyd
>> The form does seem to have worked, and I'm not currently on the BRBL, >> although >> this morning I got bounces from a Barracuda customer for a very benign >> message >> with "rejected due to spam content," so who knows. I wish there was better >> visibility into the process. > > then it w

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.06.2015 um 14:47 schrieb Jered Floyd: The form does seem to have worked, and I'm not currently on the BRBL, although this morning I got bounces from a Barracuda customer for a very benign message with "rejected due to spam content," so who knows. I wish there was better visibility int

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-23 Thread Jered Floyd
gt; A small number of recipients have been getting bounce-unsubscribed a >> community mailing list that I administer. The most recent bounces say >> that this "blocked using Barracuda Reputation; >> http://www.barracudanetworks.com/reputation/"; Visiting that page >

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
mail through spam filters even if you are listed on the BRBL is to register your domain and IPs at EmailReg.org." OK, sounds good, I can prove that my IP address is allowed to send for my domains -- I thought that was what SPF and DKIM are for (which are configured) but whatever. However, I cl

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 22:55:41 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > the question is *how* is that de-listing managed and how do you > manage "i will take care in the future" and if that's not true > because de-listing is just a click how easy is it for spammers to not > realy care I delist anyone who asks

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sun Jun 21 16:22:26 2015, Dianne Skoll wrote: > I don't approve of Barracuda's behaviour. If they're blocking > /24s because of some bad machines, you should not have to pay for > delisting one IP. If they can prove that your specific IP was responsible > for a spam run, then it's legit to cha

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2015 um 23:50 schrieb Jered Floyd: There is a murky relationship between Barracuda and EmailReg. It's awfully suspicious that signing up on whitelist X clears you from "unrelated" blacklist Y. So, it may not be "paying to delist one IP" in framing, but in action it seems to be pret

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jered Floyd
EmailReg.org operates a whitelist, so you pay to get listed there. The site doesn't say much at all about what sort of verification or later delisting for spam they might do. However, they are promoted directly on the "Sorry, your email was blocked" page for Barracuda Repu

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
g. > > You are splitting hairs. Essentially, you are paying for delisting. /sigh I'm not splitting hairs, you are redefining "delisting". Go read the first sentence on emailreg.org and learn something about them. -Jim P.

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2015 um 22:52 schrieb Dianne Skoll: On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:26:54 -0400 Jim Popovitch wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dianne Skoll you should not have to pay for delisting one IP. and with BN you are NOT paying for a delisting. You are splitting hairs. Essentially, you a

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:26:54 -0400 Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dianne Skoll > > you should not have to pay for delisting one IP. > and with BN you are NOT paying for a delisting. You are splitting hairs. Essentially, you are paying for delisting. We run our own set

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2015 um 22:22 schrieb Dianne Skoll: On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:23:58 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: spammers don't invest money, never Of course not. They pay using a stolen credit card. I don't approve of Barracuda's behaviour. If they're blocking /24s because of some bad machines, yo

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote: > you should not have to pay for delisting one IP. and with BN you are NOT paying for a delisting.You are paying for the upfront ID validation and verification process that goes into fast-tracking your email flow. If you don't want that f

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:23:58 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > spammers don't invest money, never Of course not. They pay using a stolen credit card. I don't approve of Barracuda's behaviour. If they're blocking /24s because of some bad machines, you should not have to pay for delisting one IP. I

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2015 um 20:52 schrieb Antony Stone: On Sunday 21 June 2015 at 19:23:58 (EU time), Reindl Harald wrote: spammers don't invest money, never Ah, my bad understanding - I followed the link you posted earlier http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/Glossary#233 which pointed me to http://ww

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Antony Stone
On Sunday 21 June 2015 at 19:23:58 (EU time), Reindl Harald wrote: > spammers don't invest money, never Ah, my bad understanding - I followed the link you posted earlier http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/Glossary#233 which pointed me to http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/641?article=641 whi

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 Jun 2015, at 10:33, Jered Floyd wrote: Richard, The BRBL may have listed the entire /24 that includes your sending IPs. Painful experience has shown that Barracuda won't hear your requests for delisting, and the listing may never go away. I believe you've got it in one. I heard bac

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2015 um 18:58 schrieb Antony Stone: On Sunday 21 June 2015 at 17:22:58 (EU time), Jim Popovitch wrote: I appear to be getting a shakedown scam from Barracuda Networks. You are not being shaken down, but you might be slandering. ;-) I'm fairly certain that BN isn't making much prof

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Antony Stone
On Sunday 21 June 2015 at 17:22:58 (EU time), Jim Popovitch wrote: > > I appear to be getting a shakedown scam from Barracuda Networks. > > You are not being shaken down, but you might be slandering. ;-) > > I'm fairly certain that BN isn't making much profit off of your $20. > What they are ge

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
> I appear to be getting a shakedown scam from Barracuda Networks. You are not being shaken down, but you might be slandering. ;-) I'm fairly certain that BN isn't making much profit off of your $20. What they are getting is your commitment, and your ID, that one or more IP addrs under your cont

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2015 um 17:00 schrieb Jeroen de Neef: I wonder what their justification is for doing this. the questoon is how many addtional IP's on the /24 where in fact sending spam, see http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/Glossary#233 2015-06-21 16:33 GMT+02:00 Jered Floyd mailto:je...@convi

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jeroen de Neef
I wonder what their justification is for doing this. 2015-06-21 16:33 GMT+02:00 Jered Floyd : > > Richard, > > > The BRBL may have listed the entire /24 that includes your sending IPs. > > Painful experience has shown that Barracuda won't hear your requests for > > delisting, and the listing may

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jered Floyd
Richard, > The BRBL may have listed the entire /24 that includes your sending IPs. > Painful experience has shown that Barracuda won't hear your requests for > delisting, and the listing may never go away. I believe you've got it in one. I heard back from a colleague on the same /24 (though n

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Noel Butler
figuration issue, but there is a >> link for one-time removal. >> >> Below that the page says "One way to get your email through spam >> filters even if you are listed on the BRBL is to register your domain >> and IPs at EmailReg.org." OK, sounds good, I can p

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Noel Butler
On 21/06/2015 01:49, Jered Floyd wrote: > Harald, > >> no you don't understand how a Barracuda appliance works >> emailreg.org is a whitelist like the ones spamassassin is using >> >> in case of a barracuda appliance it overrides the RBL > > It'

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Noel Butler
has been blocked so I can't > determine if there is a configuration issue, but there is a link for one-time > removal. Ask them why, they are under no obligation to remove you, but at least you'll know why your listed specifically. > However, I click through to emailreg.org [2] and AF

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Richard Doyle
n/"; Visiting that page > provides no information on the specific reason my MTA has been blocked > so I can't determine if there is a configuration issue, but there is a > link for one-time removal. > > Below that the page says "One way to get your email through spam >

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2015 um 17:49 schrieb Jered Floyd: Harald, no you don't understand how a Barracuda appliance works emailreg.org is a whitelist like the ones spamassassin is using in case of a barracuda appliance it overrides the RBL It's a whitelist that appears to be based solely

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Jered Floyd
Harald, > no you don't understand how a Barracuda appliance works > emailreg.org is a whitelist like the ones spamassassin is using > > in case of a barracuda appliance it overrides the RBL It's a whitelist that appears to be based solely on paying Barracuda a fee. Tha

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
;One way to get your email through spam filters even if you are listed on the BRBL is to register your domain and IPs at EmailReg.org." OK, sounds good, I can prove that my IP address is allowed to send for my domains -- I thought that was what SPF and DKIM are for (which are configured) but wh

Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Jered Floyd
tion issue, but there is a link for one-time removal. Below that the page says "One way to get your email through spam filters even if you are listed on the BRBL is to register your domain and IPs at EmailReg.org." OK, sounds good, I can prove that my IP address is allowed to send for

RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Hutchinson
> -Original Message- > From: LuKreme [mailto:krem...@kreme.com] > Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 4:59 p.m. > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list > > On 16-Dec-2009, at 16:11, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > > So far

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread J.D. Falk
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Christian Brel wrote: > It's also fair to say any ESP such as Return Path taking money to > deliver mail should be optimising it {or offering advice on > optimisation) so it does *not* score high. Otherwise what are their > customers paying them for? Return Path is no

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 16-Dec-2009, at 16:11, Michael Hutchinson wrote: So far only 1 person on this list has claimed to have been hit by Spam that has been let through by the Habeas rules in SA. I'm the only one? Really? That doesn’t jibe with my memory, but I'm not scanning th

Re: [sa] Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 12/16/2009 6:16 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > blabber... checkout SVN - follow dev list... HABEAS is history... I believe the *point* here is that HABEAS is NOT 'history' for ordinary systems runnin

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Greg Troxel
LuKreme writes: > On 16-Dec-2009, at 16:11, Michael Hutchinson wrote: >> So far only 1 person on this list has claimed to have been hit by Spam that >> has been let through by the Habeas rules in SA. > > > I'm the only one? Really? That doesn’t jibe with my memory, but I'm not > scanning the e

RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread R-Elists
> > I'm the only one? Really? That doesn't jibe with my memory, > but I'm not scanning the entire list to prove you wrong. > > Really? > > Yeah, sorry, not buying it. > LuKreme et al, you were not the only one much goes under or over the radar on the list... re those rules, we see 2

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread LuKreme
On 16-Dec-2009, at 16:11, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > So far only 1 person on this list has claimed to have been hit by Spam that > has been let through by the Habeas rules in SA. I'm the only one? Really? That doesn’t jibe with my memory, but I'm not scanning the entire list to prove you wrong

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/16/2009 6:16 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: blabber... checkout SVN - follow dev list... HABEAS is history... I believe the *point* here is that HABEAS is NOT 'history' for ordinary systems running ordinary sa-update on 3.2.5. they can adj

RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
> > The trouble with this is how often are these rules being re-examined > and re-evaluated? > > Not that often. HABEAS has been through three iterations since those > rules were set at −4 and −8. > > What is enabled by default should be the safest possible settings. > Relying on a third party t

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread jdow
From: "LuKreme" Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/16 07:56 On 16-Dec-2009, at 08:33, Mike Cardwell wrote: For what it's worth, I just ran sa-stats.pl against my last ten days of logs. The only mention of habeas was: 10HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI 367 1.450.00 17.36 So it h

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread jdow
From: "Mike Cardwell" Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/16 07:33 On 16/12/2009 14:23, LuKreme wrote: uses. The only thing that really matters is how effective they are. If a blacklist blocks spammers without blocking too many legitimate mails, use it. If a whitelist allows legitimate mail wi

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread jdow
From: "Res" Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/16 03:18 On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:10:11 +1000 (EST) Res wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: Christian Brel wrote: Perhaps the time has come for a fork of Spamassassin where these commercial c

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: blabber... checkout SVN - follow dev list... HABEAS is history... I believe the *point* here is that HABEAS is NOT 'history' for ordinary systems running ordinary sa-update on 3.2.5. My rules (in /var/lib/spamassassin) still include the stron

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, J.D. Falk wrote: Which finally brings us back to the core questions which seem to go unanswered: They've all been answered many times, in other threads. Perhaps I missed the messages, but it seems to me that the deep issues are *debated* a little, but never really answere

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread LuKreme
On 16-Dec-2009, at 08:33, Mike Cardwell wrote: > For what it's worth, I just ran sa-stats.pl against my last ten days of logs. > The only mention of habeas was: > > 10HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI 367 1.450.00 17.36 > > So it hit on 17.36% of my Ham, and 0% of my Spam. With

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Mike Cardwell
On 16/12/2009 14:23, LuKreme wrote: uses. The only thing that really matters is how effective they are. If a blacklist blocks spammers without blocking too many legitimate mails, use it. If a whitelist allows legitimate mail without sending through too many spams, use it. Even lists that hav

RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: Three points: 1) It is known this list is read by spammers to learn what we are doing. I've verified this with "challenge/response" tactics including taunting more than once. Sh! They'll hear you! :) 2) On several occasions now Richard has tried to torpedo

RE: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread R-Elists
> Still doesn't answer my question. Perhaps I'm "dense". But to > spell out my question more explicitly: > > what do you mean by "personal response spam"? Is that just > Richard's on-list responses we've all seen? Or something > else? (did I miss that part of the conversation?). And what >

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:39:25 -0600 "McDonald, Dan" wrote: > On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:13 AM, "Bowie Bailey" > wrote: > > > Christian Brel wrote: > >> The point comes back to this and it has *not* been answered > >> sensibly; WHY DOES SPAMASSASSIN DEFAULT INSTALL WITH A NEGATIVE > >> SCORING RULE

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:13 AM, "Bowie Bailey" wrote: Christian Brel wrote: The point comes back to this and it has *not* been answered sensibly; WHY DOES SPAMASSASSIN DEFAULT INSTALL WITH A NEGATIVE SCORING RULE THAT FAVOURS A COMMERCIAL BULK MAILER. Namely the negative score for Habeas?

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/16/2009 3:23 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 16-Dec-2009, at 07:12, Bowie Bailey wrote: uses. The only thing that really matters is how effective they are. If a blacklist blocks spammers without blocking too many legitimate mails, use it. If a whitelist allows legitimate mail without sending thro

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread LuKreme
On 16-Dec-2009, at 07:12, Bowie Bailey wrote: > uses. The only thing that really matters is how effective they are. If > a blacklist blocks spammers without blocking too many legitimate mails, > use it. If a whitelist allows legitimate mail without sending through > too many spams, use it. Even

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Christian Brel wrote: > The point comes back to this and it has *not* been answered sensibly; > WHY DOES SPAMASSASSIN DEFAULT INSTALL WITH A NEGATIVE SCORING RULE THAT > FAVOURS A COMMERCIAL BULK MAILER. Namely the negative score for Habeas? > This point has been answered. SA ships with that r

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
On ons 16 dec 2009 12:10:11 CET, Res wrote no whitelist should ever become default part of SA, the day it is, is the day > I look elsewhere. please post on this maillist what you do when you find replacement for sa -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Res
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:10:11 +1000 (EST) Res wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: Christian Brel wrote: Perhaps the time has come for a fork of Spamassassin where these commercial considerations are not so obvious? No need for such dra

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Per Jessen
Res wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Christian Brel wrote: >> >>> Perhaps the time has come for a fork of Spamassassin where these >>> commercial considerations are not so obvious? >> >> No need for such drastic measures - it's only a ruleset. > > > no whitelist should ever

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:10:11 +1000 (EST) Res wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: > > > Christian Brel wrote: > > > >> Perhaps the time has come for a fork of Spamassassin where these > >> commercial considerations are not so obvious? > > > > No need for such drastic measures - it's o

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Res
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: Christian Brel wrote: Perhaps the time has come for a fork of Spamassassin where these commercial considerations are not so obvious? No need for such drastic measures - it's only a ruleset. no whitelist should ever become default part of SA the day

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: > Perhaps the time has come for a fork of Spamassassin where these > commercial considerations are not so obvious? No need for such drastic measures - it's only a ruleset. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Christian Brel
r threads. Habeas > wasn't involved in emailreg.org, though. No connection at all. I don't recall anyone claiming Emailreg.org was related to Habeas? Habeas has enough bulkers on it to make a simple paupers 'pay to spam' list like Emailreg pale into total insignificance. Whist

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Christian Brel
litate the delivery of UCE/UBE/SPAM. To point that out is *not* scuffling any attempt to block spam. To the contrary. Are we clear on that or are you ignoring that? All that is required is for Spamassassin to default install with NEUTRAL (0 point) rules for Habeas {or any other p2s whitelist it chooses

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread jdow
From: "J.D. Falk" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/15 13:28 On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: Which finally brings us back to the core questions which seem to go unanswered: They've all been answered many times, in other threads. Habeas wasn't invo

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread jdow
From: "Rob McEwen" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/15 13:13 jdow wrote: jdow wrote: his response personal spam to this account has increased sharply Uuh, what does that mean, exactly? A possible cause and effect exists. I can neither prove nor disprove it. the fact exists. Still doesn't ans

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread J.D. Falk
On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: > Which finally brings us back to the core questions which seem to go > unanswered: They've all been answered many times, in other threads. Habeas wasn't involved in emailreg.org, though. No connection at all. -- J.D. F

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Rob McEwen wrote: jdow wrote: jdow wrote: his response personal spam to this account has increased sharply Uuh, what does that mean, exactly? A possible cause and effect exists. I can neither prove nor disprove it. the fact exists. Still doesn't answer my question. Per

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Rob McEwen
jdow wrote: >> jdow wrote: >>> his response personal spam to this account has increased sharply >> Uuh, what does that mean, exactly? > A possible cause and effect exists. I can neither prove nor disprove > it. the fact exists. Still doesn't answer my question. Perhaps I'm "dense". But to spell ou

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
jdow wrote: From: "Rob McEwen" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/15 11:10 jdow wrote: his response personal spam to this account has increased sharply Uuh, what does that mean, exactly? A possible cause and effect exists. I can neither prove nor disprove it. the fact exists. Properly known

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread jdow
From: "Christian Brel" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/15 11:54 On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:01:51 -0800 "jdow" wrote: Perhaps are some kind of spammer trying to divert attention from yourself? I have longer bona fides on this list than I suspect you do and my partner is a currently inactive SARE

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread jdow
From: "Rob McEwen" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/15 11:10 jdow wrote: his response personal spam to this account has increased sharply Uuh, what does that mean, exactly? A possible cause and effect exists. I can neither prove nor disprove it. the fact exists. {^_^}

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Christian Brel
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:01:51 -0800 "jdow" wrote: > From: "Charles Gregory" > Sent: Monday, 2009/December/14 12:35 > > > > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > >> If everyone could ignore the taunting, and just carry on, there > >> wouldn't be an issue. > > > > The taunting *is* the

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Rob McEwen
jdow wrote: > his response personal spam to this account has increased sharply Uuh, what does that mean, exactly? -- Rob McEwen http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/ r...@invaluement.com +1 (478) 475-9032

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 15-Dec-2009, at 09:42, Charles Gregory wrote: The 'issue' (as I see it) is that a great many servers install a 'standard' SA 'package' So it is important to to make the best possible assessment of all rules... The trouble with that is exactly wh

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread jdow
From: "Charles Gregory" Sent: Monday, 2009/December/14 12:35 On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Michael Hutchinson wrote: If everyone could ignore the taunting, and just carry on, there wouldn't be an issue. The taunting *is* the issue. The rest of the arguments, about design and defaults, are carried o

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-Dec-2009, at 09:42, Charles Gregory wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> Clarification: I, for one, was only proposing that the whitelisting >> plugins and rules that query external databases are removed from the >> standard ruleset and sa_update and placed in a separate li

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: Clarification: I, for one, was only proposing that the whitelisting plugins and rules that query external databases are removed from the standard ruleset and sa_update and placed in a separate library of optional rules. The 'issue' (as I see it) is th

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:29 -0600, Daniel J McDonald wrote: > That's the issue with pulling all of the whitelists out of the scoring > mix - the whitelist components are part of the mix that allows 5 points > to indicate spam. And I was trying to counter the argument that we > should simply rip th

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 23:07 +0100, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > On 12/14/2009 10:55 PM, Daniel J McDonald wrote: > > I'd love to have the clamav unofficial signature families scored. I > > have a fine guess as to how relevant they are, but it is just that - a > > guess. > > someone, somewhere is

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-15 Thread Christian Brel
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:40:44 +0100 mouss wrote: > Bill Landry a écrit : > > Christian Brel, AKA "rich...@buzzhost.co.uk" (among other aliases), > > is back... > > > > Bill > > > he switched MUA, but forgot to switch "helo" and get a different IP > range... > Good work Columbo. Tell me, how mu

Re: emailreg.org - pretty good white list

2009-12-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
On tir 15 dec 2009 00:32:31 CET, mouss wrote Can all the guys who think 20 isn't much send me 10$ each? I promise to write a song for you. what if the snail postman did not get paid ?, how many snailmails would not be sent ?, its wonder me that email is completely free of charge in the fi

hacking whitelists (was Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list)

2009-12-14 Thread J.D. Falk
On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: > I ask again, on the issue of whitelists, is there a serious issue with > spammers targetting white-listed IP's as favored candidates for hacking? > I'm okay with the answer being 'no'. I'm sure people with large servers and > good statistics

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread mouss
Bill Landry a écrit : > Christian Brel, AKA "rich...@buzzhost.co.uk" (among other aliases), is > back... > > Bill he switched MUA, but forgot to switch "helo" and get a different IP range... Received-SPF: softfail (nike.apache.org: transitioning domain of brel.spamassassin091...@copperproducti

Re: emailreg.org - pretty good white list

2009-12-14 Thread mouss
get through either ReturnPath or emailreg.org. > It takes time to run through the hoops in either case. And $20k is a whole > different ballpark for dollar expense than $200. > > It's not bulletproof. But it's probably worth a small negative score to > allow legitimate e

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Res
mment, the emailreg.org _should_ be able to be disabled by customers, but, then again, you can always vote with your feet and simply not use their systems, they will quickly get the picture, but sadly a lot of people just have no clue, there are afterall, plenty of saleman out there who could s

RE: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello, > The taunting *is* the issue. The rest of the arguments, about design > and > defaults, are carried on by numerous individuals in a quite civilized > manner. But when someone starts throwing arond stupid accusations, then > the person attacked focuses their efforts on 'defending' themselve

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/14/2009 10:55 PM, Daniel J McDonald wrote: I'd love to have the clamav unofficial signature families scored. I have a fine guess as to how relevant they are, but it is just that - a guess. someone, somewhere is alreay converting ClamV signatures to HUGE (slow) rule files, forgot where

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 22:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > your modules are all there already and much of it is already managed as > you suggest: they're called rules.. you can even switch them on or off, > or add your own "modules" /plugins/modules. > > SA provides an Open Source FRAMEWORK

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 21:23 +, Martin Gregorie wrote: > May I suggest that handling whitelist or blacklist rules and any > associated plugins by packaging them as separately installable modules > may be of benefit to SA maintainers. The idea is to reduce the SA dev > workload by handing off res

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/14/2009 10:23 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: May I suggest that handling whitelist or blacklist rules and any associated plugins by packaging them as separately installable modules may be of benefit to SA maintainers. The idea is to reduce the SA dev workload by handing off responsibility for m

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Martin Gregorie
May I suggest that handling whitelist or blacklist rules and any associated plugins by packaging them as separately installable modules may be of benefit to SA maintainers. The idea is to reduce the SA dev workload by handing off responsibility for maintaining and bugfixing such modules to external

Re: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Bob O'Brien wrote: I can mostly just offer opinion, and that would be that whitelisting is not (yet) in wide enough use to have become a sufficiently attractive target. Which brings us back to the 'rational version' of the discussion about SA weighing whitelists favorably

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