From: "Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And when the spammers use a joe jobbed email address, what will you do? How
will you know if it really is a drop box, or someones real email address
being Joe Jobbed to mess up your list? Believe me, the spammer will feed
false info to give your list a bad name.
Chris, that is a really good point.
I have three answers:
(1) I'm hoping that being below the radar might prevent some of what you are talking
about... at least a while. And I don't think that the nigeria spammers are the type of
spammers who'd frequent this list, for example, as much much as other spammers do, but I
could be wrong about that.
There is no such thing as below the radar. They read this list just like
we do. {^_-}
(2) Messages caught by an e-mal based dnsbl probably shouldn't, by themselves, score
high enough to cause a message to be outright blocked. In fact, I often catch these scam
messages in my rules based filtering... only to find that, sometimes, they scored just
below the threshold of being placed in the spam folder. A dnsbl service like this could
put those particular messages "over the top" without harming a mislisted address, if
used as I've described.
That part is generally what happens anyway.
(3) Chances are, a single randomly picked e-mail address that was joe-jobbed would have
just about 0% chance of showing up in a particular server that happened to use this
service. Especially give the incredibly low percentage of servers which might
potentially use this anytime in the next months or years.
If I were a betting woman I think I could make a LOT of money off this
fellow on that assertion.
{^_-}
