On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:36:03PM -0400, John S. Wolter wrote: > Would it be ok with the list if I approach them about providing > Anti-Spam services? The service interjects itself just before EMail This doesn't sound like a great deal to me. (a) spamassassin is free -- this service is $20/month. (maybe your friendship will hook up something cheaper..) (b) spamassassin does not involve modifying DNS records -- this service does. That means spamassassin can be turned on and off with no latency, but this service could persist in use for days after the decision is made to turn it off. (c) This use of MX is bypassable, and easily so; connecting directly to the list server and sending spam to the list will still work great. (d) They report a false positive rate of less than 0.1% -- ouch. I'm used to zero false positives from spamassassin.[1] The downside to spamassassin, of course, is that it needs periodic updating of its rulesets. Some distributions provide easy updates for spamassassin rules (debian, gentoo), and other users could use CPAN to update -- my personal complaints of CPAN aside, I'll admit it mostly works well. I can't speak for our list admins, but I doubt they'll jump for it. [1]: I realize this is my own experience. However, I've received over 44 megabytes of spam since June first that wasn't moderated through a mail list; I moderate four moderate-spam-traffic lists that have received over 4800 mails held for moderation. There were several false positives, however these were induced by mailman's "suspicious header" rule. All were from one person with a thankfully easy-to-recognize address. :) -- The Bill of Rights: 7 out of 10 rights haven't been sold yet! Contact your congressman for details how *you* can buy one today!
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