On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:09, Chris Santerre wrote: > Well I've done another update on the rules site. Some great rules > submitted again. Lots I want to incorporate myself. I have received a > few rules that score points for bounced emails. What is everyone's > take on this? > > Yes bounces can be generated by spam, but for the most part I believe > them to be legit. I think it may be dangerous to start scoring > bounces. IMHO.
If scoring bounces works for some people, then there's no reason for those people not to score them. The big advantage I see in all these rules is that we can all use rules that work for our particular circumstances, even though those rules might be disastrous for other people. Even if a rule is impractical for 90% of users, the spammers now know it exists and have the problem of deciding if they should craft their spam to avoid the rule or not. If they try to avoid every rule in existence they won't have any message left to send! > Secondly we never clarified if it was ok to discuss rules here in > mass. I can't help it. Seeing all these rules has got me wanting to > discuss them, and the posts regarding them will no doubt increase. So > shall we continue to use SAtalk? I think we should. Maybe just put > [RD] in the subject for rule discussion? I'm somewhat tentative about this too, we could easily end up flooding the list with hundreds of rule discussion posts if we're not careful. I'd really like to see an ok from the list admin or at least one of the dev team before getting right into this. > I did the wiki thing, That is kinda cool ;) I can't even get to the damn wiki, I seem to be nullrouted or something, most frustrating! -- Yorkshire Dave -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
