Re: [EXIM] DynamicIP Spam Sources List (DSSL)

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Author: Ronald F. Guilmette (exim-users)
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] DynamicIP Spam Sources List (DSSL)

In message <E10bWlb-0007Lr-00@???>,
Mark Lowes <Hamster@???> wrote:

>Ok you want to advertise your DUL, but it's not relevant to exim except
>for a single mention. IMO this list is not the place to discuss the
>merits of the various blocking services.


Hey! Don't tell me. Tell everybody else.

I only wandered in here after checking the list archives for this list
and seeing rather large/extensive thread being carried on here on this
very topic.

Anyway, I said all I had to say about the DSSL already. I'm done.

>[...]
>> number of hits you got from each of the two lists. I'm confident that
>> you will see more through spam stopping when consulting the DSSL list.
>
>Hits does not nessarily equate to spam blocked.


OK, so arrange to have your mail server siphon off everything that comes
in that matches against the DSSL for a week (or two). Then, at the end
of that time, go through and look at all of the messages that have been
caught in your net.

Other people who have done this already report that the ``catch'' appears
to be 100% USDA pure pork spam.

>[...]
>> >Also, why is it that everything to do with imrss.org is so *totally*
>> >anonymous? Who are you guys? Why are you hiding behind "role"
>> >accounts?
>>
>> Sorry. Force of habit. We get cranks threatening to sue us from time to
>> time, and the role accounts just make it a little bit easier to convince
>> them to just give up, go away, and annoy somebody else.
>
>Fine, your problem. The MAPS people seem to have this sorted without
>hiding.


The MAPS people have a lot of money (and time, I gather) to deal with
crank lawsuits. We don't. Nor do we wish to have our personal mailboxes
invaded by these kooks. We have work to do.

>> P.S. Please define ``accountable''. Is Paul Vixie ``accountable''? What
>> are you going to do to him if he messes up? Not like him?
>
>If he f*cks up in a suitably serious fashion then dropping his service is
>a good start...


And if *I* f**k up in a suitably serious fashion, you can and should drop
the DSSL.

>However as pointed out earlier this list is for the discussion of _EXIM_
>not ip blocking, the various block lists etc etc, there are many other
>places for these discussions.


Sorry. As pointed out earlier, I just dropped by because there seemed to
be a big thread on this topic in the exim-users list archive. If this is
an inappropriate things to discuss here, then why are so many other sub-
scribers doing it?

Anyway, like I say, I have said all I have to say about the DSSL.



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