Re: [exim] UCEPROTECT Blacklists and why callouts are abusiv…

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Author: Andrew - Supernews
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] UCEPROTECT Blacklists and why callouts are abusive
>>>>> "David" == David Saez Padros <david@???> writes:

>> .. and about 10% of our
>> incoming SMTP connections are from blowback sources (callouts, C/R and
>> bounce blowback - we can't reliably distinguish them).
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Averaged over the past couple of years, counting all connections that
>> got as far as RCPT TO, _at least_ 90-95% of connections were caused by
>> blowback (i.e. 10 to 20 blowback connections for every real one).


David> looks like you have misspelled something ... blowback
David> connections could be 10% or 90-95% but not both together (if i
David> didn't miss anything)

You trimmed out the words "in the best case". i.e. the minimum value
seen recently is 10%, the average (mean) over a period of a couple of
years is 90-95%, and the maximum is 99.99%.

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