On Monday, Jul 28th 2003 at 10:07 -0400, quoth Matt Kettler: =>At 12:04 AM 7/28/2003 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>>This is an rbl that IMNSHO should *not* be used by anyone unless they =>>deliberately want to block all clients of uunet. I know of which I speak. => =>as a side note, the score of the RFCI RBL in 2.55 is less than 1.5. => =>It would be very hard to construe this as a "block all of UUnet" case since =>the rule score is fairly modest. I don't know of anyone offhand that runs =>with a default tag level of under 3.0, except those who use SA as a "tag =>everything that's not in my whitelist" tool. => =>Admittedly it does wind up giving all of UUnet the equivalent of a reduced =>threshold, but it's not going to be a criteria for tagging without hitting =>some other positive scoring rules at the same time.
You are correct except that what I suspect is missing from this discussion is that rfcignorant really has *nothing* to do with spam. It *only* has to do with whether one is a uunet customer. The people who run rfcignorant have exactly one mission in life: To cause the whois record of uunet to provide a human being's valid name, phone number and email address. They, for some stoopid reason refuse to do that, but we should not confuse other RBLs that help stop spam with rfcignorant. We really should be providing tests that are related to spam detection. This particular one does not; it only skews the score of legitimate uunet customers thereby causing a higher percentage of false positives. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net ------------------------------------------------------- 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
