Re: How good is RBL at filtering spam?

[schinder]

On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 07:36:33PM -0400, James Smallacombe wrote:
} 
} Not from my experience.  They shamelessly spam [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
} or any list or alias that's open.

My guess has always been that they stay away from .gov because the
.gov is the one entity that can effectively shut them down.  If most
of the cycles of Federal government computers were going towards
handling spam, then spam would quickly be stopped by law.  If it were
coming from overseas, pressure would be put on those countries that
were hosting spammers.  The US Federal government has the power to
deal with spammers, unlike most of their victims.

(My pobox.com address, on the other hand, gets plenty of spam, because
pobox's antispam methods are very poor.  I only wish they used DUL,
which would get rid of most of the spam from that direction.)

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Paul Schinder
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