Re: How to filter these spam messages

[Simon]

I reviewed greylisting as a solution in the past, we couldn't accept it due to
delay and I also read not all email servers will resend properly. So there is a
chance few legitimate emails will never get redelivered. When you are running
a business shop, such delays or exceptions are not permitted.

I believe it should be very easy to write a rule set for these "work from home",
stock, mortgage, etc... short spam emails, I just don't have the expertise to do
it right.

-Simon

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:06:34 -0400, Billy Huddleston wrote:

>Yup.. and it sucks.. I get a 10 minute delay, and my phone starts ringing
>off the hook. I've had to beef up our spamassassin engines at least 3 times
>in the past 18 months to handle the load.. and now getting these stupid
>text only 3 or 4 line emails that hard very difficult to block.. Greylisting
>just isn't a option that I'm willing to do if it's simply refusing to take
>delivery of the message on the first go around..
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>Thanks, Billy
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jo Rhett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Logan Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 2:47 PM
>Subject: Re: How to filter these spam messages
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>> Logan Shaw wrote:
>>> I guess the problem with being an ISP is that there would be
>>> other ISPs who would be willing to not try to adjust their
>>> expectations and instead promise them super-speedy e-mail
>>> delivery in all cases. The fact that it isn't possible to
>>> deliver on that promise might not matter if they still manage
>>> to take away your customers. :-)
>>
>> Exactly so. At an ISP I did some work for, I used to argue this until
>> people very reasonably pointed out that yahoo mail got delivered faster,
>> and it was free.
>>
>> Yahoo averages ~2 minutes for mail delivery. That sets the bar for anyone
>> who is trying to sell their mail services.
>>
>> --
>> Jo Rhett
>> Network/Software Engineer
>> Net Consonance
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