Re: [Exim] [A bit OT] Yet another RBL

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Nico Erfurth
CC: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [A bit OT] Yet another RBL
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:06 , Nico Erfurth <masta@???> said:

> Tony Earnshaw wrote:
>
> >>Because I never received any valid mail from .kr or .tw but many spam
> >>(this is no offense to people in .kr or .tw), I was blocking IP-ranges
> >>from .kr and .tw for a long time now, based on an IP-List I build from
> >>some APNic-page.
> >
> > Me SA-Exim 4.12:
> >
> > You really ought to be looking at SpamAssassin 2.50, you know.
> > Especially with Marc's SA-Exim. You'd never have to worry about blocking
> > lists again, it's so effective.
>
> I used SA-Exim before, now I switched to exiscan.
> But Spamassassin isn't that good in any case, spammers are becoming more
> clueful every day, and I think heuristic-scans like SA uses will work
> worse with every day :-/. With some well forged headers one can trick SA
> very easily.
>

Why forge mail when very short spams with URLs get very low scores?
(certainly with 2.44).

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