Problem is paranoia about blocking legit mail (not so much on my part but my bosses).
Basic scenario is UK business, 500 or so staff, 20,000 or so inbound messages a week. Doing a real basic grep on the last four weeks logs there's been around 12,500 connections from around six of the most notorious american direct-mx spam isps (comcast, attbi, optonline etc), looking at the logs I don't see one thing that looks legit (i.e from the ISPs own MX's). Admittedly in bandwidth terms it's next to nothing, but if I can do away with it with no noticable impact on legit mail it's be a bonus. My boss is alright with me trialling MTA level client blocking on those domains, but you can only get so much in a bounce message - one idea was to have a page on our website like a contact form but spam specific saying "you're here because..." seems a bit of a halfway house but it's better than nothing. Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 November 2003 18:08 > To: Paul Hutchings > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] OT: examples of "email blocked due to spam, > contact us here" webp age? > > > At 09:10 AM 11/5/2003, Paul Hutchings wrote: > >I'm looking for an example of a webpage that a sender might > be directed to > >if their email got bounced due to spam blocking measures, > something that in > >a lot of flowery words says "you're here because your ISP > sends us too much > >shit, so to contact us fill in this form and we might whitelist you". > > > 550 spammers are not welcome here. > > Not very sugary.. However, only add SMTP level blocks, as an > absolute last > resort. If they've actually gotten to a level where I'm > blocking em then > they had to try hard to get there, so there's no need to be polite :) > > > Everything else just goes thru SA for tagging, and is passed > on with tags > attached, and that's how I deal with at least four 9's worth > of spam sources. > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
