Commentary: spamcop filters only blocked a tiny amount of mail, overall. 233 messages in 24 hours. Of those, ~80% were obviously false positives, and the remainder are listed below, some of which may be false positives as well but I'd guess a lot are spam. Techtarget looks like a one-to-many list, and I have no problem with those taking a collatoral damage hit. No idea what seagull.net is.
Incoming spam to mail-archive mainly clutters up the "archive@jab.org" slushbox (useful for lists requiring a confirmation) and pollutes the list-of-lists; otherwise no real harm done. Still, even though the numbers sound pretty horrific (80% false positives), they may actually make sense after I think about it enough. (Basically it would mean tough luck to a relatively small number of high traffic lists.) Another idea, when I move up to Exim 3.2+ with the next Debian release, may be to apply a rule like this one from SourceForge: # Even better: refuse senders that do not exist (by asking the remote mail # server). This adds a little load, but it's awesome -- Marc # #sender_verify_hosts_callback = !127.0.0.1:!10.0.0.0/8:!*.sourceforge.net:/etc/mail/checksender/badsendinghosts:* #sender_verify_callback_domains = !sourceforge.net:!users.sourceforge.net:/etc/mail/checksender/baddomains:* Anyway, these are the numbers, and for the moment I'll lay off the spamcop filter. I am happy to hear feedback on whether that should be permanent. By the way, if you were affected, you may want to figure out how to get off the blacklist regardless of mail-archive. Cheers, Jeff PS. Of course, the big fight from M-A's perspective is always against the harvestor. PSS. My personal incoming spam was hardly effected (sigh...) as much of it now comes from @jab.org and @alum.mit.edu forwarding addresses. ==== $ grep spamcop rejectlog rejectlog.0 | wc -l 233 $ grep spamcop rejectlog rejectlog.0 | grep -v -e columbia.edu \ -e mozilla.org -e berkeley.edu -e listserver.kbx.de | wc -l 38 $ grep spamcop rejectlog rejectlog.0 | grep -v -e columbia.edu \ -e mozilla.org -e berkeley.edu -e listserver.kbx.de | cut -f2- -dm | sort 217-125-36-14.uc.nombres.ttd.es [217.125.36.14] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [195.134.128.227] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [195.134.128.227] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [200.14.206.2] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [202.101.110.226] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [202.108.68.140] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [206.52.249.63] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [208.146.216.228] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [218.6.2.37] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [63.228.131.162] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [63.240.200.7] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) [80.33.147.27] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) adsl-64-172-2-185.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.172.2.185] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) dewey.techtarget.com [65.214.43.156] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) dewey.techtarget.com [65.214.43.156] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) dewey.techtarget.com [65.214.43.156] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) dewey.techtarget.com [65.214.43.156] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) dewey.techtarget.com [65.214.43.156] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) dewey.techtarget.com [65.214.43.156] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) host2.btamail.net.cn [202.106.196.72] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) leisure.seagull.net [209.102.23.129] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) out-mta3.plasa.com [202.134.0.195] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) uuout3smtp8.uu.flonetwork.com [209.167.79.38] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) uuout3smtp8.uu.flonetwork.com [209.167.79.38] (RBL bl.spamcop.net) _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
