Re: [exim] DNS based host name Whitelists

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Ian Eiloart
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] DNS based host name Whitelists


Ian Eiloart wrote:
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> --On 22 June 2006 09:08:04 -0700 Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote:
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>> That are a lot of servers out there than never send a single spam. So -
>> why not track them and build a DNS whitelist server to distribute the
>> lists?
>
> Past performance is no guarantee. There's nothing to stop all of those
> servers being compromised tomorrow.
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> However, you could borrow an idea from quality engineering, and test
> random samples. If you get no spam from a particular source for a
> given period of time, you reduce the sample rate. When you get hit
> with spam, increase the sample rate - probably to every email.
>
>



I wonder how I could have a conditional that ran differently for one
minute out of every 10 minutes.