On 07.08.09 06:55, Marc Perkel wrote:

Oh, please, why html only?

>> On 06.08.09 15:37, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>> This might be an advanced concept for you but what I meant was -
>>> deliberately send spam. Everyone doing sender verification is someone
>>> who is trying to BLOCK spam, and therefore are the good guys. I also
>>> track SAV calls and I use it as a WHITE list.

>    Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>  How do you differ between people doing SAV and people sending backscatter?

> The backscatter list mixes these so it mixes SAV with people who have
> poorly configured rejection system. SAV doesn't go into the DATA phase so
> if they do QUIT without DATA then it's SAV. And if they are doing SAV then
> they are one of the good guys and get, in my system, NOBL listed. NOBL
> means don't blacklist.

Yes, but the others on list are those who accept-then-bounce, who should
be blocked asap.

>>  Do you say that backscatterer list contains IPs of servers that do _not_
>>  send backscatter but are doing SAV? Do you have any proofs about that?

> Actually the history of the backscatter list is that UCEprotect had them
> in their regular black list and do to pressure and complaints and false
> positives they separated them out. Their UCEProtect lists are better but
> still have a lot of false positives. But separating them was a move
> forward.
> 
> What they should do is return different codes to indicate what got them on
> the list. SAV is not backscatter. So if it is from <> and there is DATA
> then it's someone who is sending bad bounce messages to faked sender
> addresses. But if there is nod DATA then it's SAV. These should be
> processed separately.

While I think that SAV is bad thing, I agree that it should be separated,
potionally to different list too...

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