On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
You guys are doing something wrong.
Firstly, let's all acknowledge that the OP cross-posted to/from the SARE
mailing list, and continues to do so. Yes, there is no one on the main SA
list that is responsible for the rule, but that being said, we can still
comment on some of the arguments made...
Maybe you think that every country is like the USA or something.
No, actually this is the exact opposite of your problem. You are
complaining that the writer of the hinet rule thought that Taiwan was
very *different* from the USA.
You blew it. Your rules are wrong.
Not *my* rule, but just the same, it is not 'wrong'. It appplies a modest
*score* in keeping with two distinct facts:
1) Your IP has a reverse DNS clearly marked as DYNAMIC (something you
could correct with your provider)
2) Your provider (apparently) has a reputation for not removing spammers
and/or infected botnet machines.
Now to be fair, that rule is *very* liberal. Normally the originating IP
is not considered for blacklist rules. That is why, even thought your
hinet dynamic IP appears in your mail to this list, it triggers none of
the default rules. But to be equally fair, spammers working in Taiwan go
through the exact same 'steps' that you do to try and 'disguise' their
e-mail. So despite all the helpful suggestions, unless you can (as
suggested) rewrite your headers on your dreamhost MTA, you will continue
to be scored that modest 1.6 because of the (ahem) company you keep.
Yes I am using the wires of that Telephone Company.
And so are a bunch of spammers.
But at the first chance my mail gets, it leaves those wires and heads
for the smarthost in the USA in order to cleanse its sins....
Which is, of course, what every spammer tries to do.....
of having come from an unfamiliar country.
Unfamiliar? Quite the opposite. The SARE rule is based upon a significant
'familiarity' with a lot of spam from dynamic hinet locations.
But for you guys, once you are a Negro you are always a Negro or
something.
Personally, I find racist analogies childish, and in fact, a little
offensive. But, that aside, I don't suppose it has occurred to you that
the bulk of spam coming from Taiwan may be originating with businesses in
the USA? The 'sin' of hinet is not that they live in a country that is
necessarily full of evil people who can't wait to spam, but that hinet
itself operates a 'spammer friendly' service. Hinet could be *anywhere* in
the world, and its IP block would get that reputation. Your bad luck they
are in your country, and (apparently) your only option for an internet
connection. Again, the correct path to take, and I think I suggested this
already, is to contact your government and get them to pressure hinet to
clean up their act.
- C
