RE: OT: Why Friends Don't Let Friends use RBLs
- From: "Anthony Michaud" <anthonym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 11:31:57 +1000
Spam folders save no time. They just modify how you manager your hours. If
you spend 5 mins per day filtering / deleting manually as emails come in,
you're still going to spend 5 mins a day filtering from your junk folder. You
have to check the junk folder, because you've set-up a system that is
frequently fallible.
Tag & bag is good if you've got a policy of "we're only going to re-label your
spam" but it saves no time. Let those with open relays and spammicidal
tendencies be inconvenienced - I've done the right thing with a secured mail
system.
Anthony.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amy Babinchak [mailto:amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:45
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> Guess I'd rather have a few false positives dumped into my spam folder
> than run the risk of not getting the email at all. I get
> probably 150 or
> so spam a day, maybe one legit email a week ends up in the
> spam filter.
> Not bad considering I'm only using the filter within Outlook
> 2003 and a
> handful of blocked domains in ISA.
>
> Filtering spam doesn't have to be difficult.
>
> Amy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Michaud [mailto:anthonym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:35 PM
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> Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: Why Friends Don't Let Friends use RBLs
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> Bayesian filtering is still to "iffy" for my liking. There
> is a greater
> risk of "false positives" and the dynamic's of spam change frequently
> enough to avoid filtering (for periods of time).
>
> Finding a few good quality ORDB's has meant that I'm blocking ~35% of
> all email's - spam still gets through, but its significantly lower and
> there is no chance of a 'false positive'. To compensate for known
> clients having a listing on one or more of the ORDB's, we
> white list all
> known correspondence with a dump from the CRM product we use
> (automating
> this is a 'to-do').
>
> As we initiate new business, we send the first email, its in our
> database (or should be if staff follow correct procedure) so its white
> listed. Nothing important is blocked.
>
> Show me a Bayesian filter with a proven track record of no false
> positives and I may think about looking at it - but I probably won't -
> the system I'm using ain't broke, so I'm not going to fix it :)
>
> Anthony.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:16
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> > Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: Why Friends Don't Let Friends use RBLs
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> >
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> > Hi Anthony,
> >
> > How does your use of an RBL on your network reduce overall bandwidth
> > utilization on the Internet link? How are they superior to a good
> > Bayesian filter?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Tom
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anthony Michaud [mailto:anthonym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 7:11 PM
> > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: Why Friends Don't Let Friends use RBLs
> >
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
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> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:22
> > > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > > Subject: [isalist] OT: Why Friends Don't Let Friends use RBLs
> >
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~ Clip from Fred Langa Newsletter
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kennedy
> > > Space Center Blacklisted I won't bore you with the
> rationale of why
> > > broad-brush "blacklist" tools are bogus--- I've covered the
> > inherent
> > > flaws in this approach many times before. (
> > http://langa.com/u/4v.htm
> > > ) But I admit to a perverse pleasure in emails like this,
> > which show
> > > just how utterly stupid SPEWS, MAPS, SpamCop and the rest
> > really are:
> > >
> > > Three times this year all of the e-mail from Kennedy Space
> > Center was
> > > blocked by our county's largest broadband ISP (RoadRunner).
> > They have
> > > done so because of a large quantity of mail coming from a
> > single user
> >
> > > or because one or more of the following third party spam
> >
> > *snippage*
> >
> > I love these rants. Who I accept email from is *my*
> choice, based on
> > the lattitude that I have been given in my role. If your
> company has
> > sent unsolicited emails, I don't want 'em. If your ISP has
> > done it, or
> > a customer of the ISP's - the ISP needs to be contacted by
> you and the
> > ISP fix it. I use dynamic RBL's, that have a quick turnaround on
> > removal of blocks, so when your mail system is secure
> again, then you
> > can talk to me. Don't fix it, then get on the phone or fax.
> >
> > Its *my* mailserver. Its *my* bandwidth. Its not free and
> > the spammers
> > / virus writers aren't paying for the bandwidth they waste.
> >
> > I just love those that think they have a god given right to
> > send email -
> > which is not the case.
> >
> > Anthony.
> >
> >
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