[Gossip] RBL experiment: not promising

2000-12-07 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Day before yesterday, I told Exim (the mail transfer agent I use for all incoming mail) to add warning header to mail flagged by the RBL so I could see the effects. Since then, I've received three personal spams, none of which were flagged. Grepping through a couple thousand pieces of mail-archi

Re: [Gossip] spam problems

2000-12-07 Thread Stephen Turner
Jeff, As far as I remember, one of RBL and ORBS only blacklists hosts that have become spam relays and then failed to heed several warnings, and the other blacklists anyone with open ports that could become spam relays in future. Or something. Unfortunately I can't remember which is which! But mo