On Thursday 12 October 2006 00:20, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > The kind of score being added to every > one of their messages is out-of-line with the seriousness of missing a > couple of rfc addresses.
I agree. Especially when Yahoo has published methods for reporting spam and abuse even if they are not those methods mentioned in the RFCs. Some of the people who set the scores for Spamassassin scream bloody murder about some trifling infraction of some absurdly old RFC, yet they snicker at the RFCs they themselves violate with this policy. On the one hand they (apache.org) refuses mail from perfectly RFC compliant Linux boxes insisting you send through your ISP, and then they refuse mail from the ISP because ONE spammer in some backwater managed to get one piece of spam into some spamtrap somewhere. Oh SO effective! Absolute floods of rolex spam and refinance spam and geocities spam is passed thru virtually unscathed by SA rules, but Boy are they ever getting tough on Yahoo for failing to dot an I in the RFCs. You will find Kurt, the collective punishment is viewed as wrong and politically incorrect in all segments of modern discourse EXCEPT in fighting spam. There, entire regions, countries and major companies can be blackballed for nothing but a pet peeve of someone in position to affect scores. SA rules have become a method for a few to extract revenge for their pet peeves. Effectiveness takes a back seat to politics. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
