> I don't have a false positive mailbox to skim. > I run Mail Avenger, which lets me run shell scripts [...] > I run Spam Assassin. If SA thinks the mail is spam, > SMTP rejects it rather than saving it or deciding to > reject it later and having to send a bounce. That
for me, there's one problem with this alternative to the "stupid" spamhaus solution — it requires i run a linux server. i never claimed that spamhaus is a panecea. but it does solve a large portion of the problem for me in a tiny shell script that runs on plan 9. whitelists can handle some unfortunate conflicts. and at this point, i think managing a spamhaus exception list is going to be easier than managing content based filtering. - erik
