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 the argument is - why does any legitimate company need
to employ a service such as Habeas/Returnpath/whatever?
If their customer emails are getting caught as spam, surely they or SA
is doing something wrong to begin with. There is not much spam that is
getting caught purely based on content, most is getting caught on
origin and its reputation.
<<jdow: I have several email sources with which I have a "relationship"
as in signed up for that are not important enough to me to outright
whitelist. I have fun watching them dance around the deadly 5.0 score.
OK OK it is fun for the feeble minded or somebody needing a dose of
graveyard humor, I suppose. But it illustrates the problem an ISP spam
filter might have.
JD's description indicates RP makes an honest attempt to scrub their
lists when problems appear. And, if they do not hear of a problem their
list does not get scrubbed. And if a user plays the 'report as spam'
trick to unsubscribe to a list (something a legitimate friend of mine
experiences too often) that can result in problems for everybody, JD,
his customers, and the cut-off recipients. RP has taken on a job that
is not trivial.
{^_^}
