"Derrick 'dman' Hudson" said:

> | BTW my position on this, FWIW, is to take the old IETF position: "be
> | conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you receive".
> Doesn't that kind of imply accepting all the spam and whatever other
> junk is thrown at you?

Not *that* liberal ;)  It's meant purely in technical terms -- ie. slight
non-standards-compliance is to be tolerated in incoming data.

> It seems that, as far as mail goes, the trend is reversing.  More and
> more sites are being more restrictive in what they receive in attempts
> to reduce the spam.  In fact, that is SA's goal :-).

nope -- SpamAssassin should use *specific* signatures as spam-signs, where
statistics from the spam/nonspam corpora back this up; general enforcing
of RFCs shouldn't be a goal for it, IMO.

--j.


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