[SAtalk] RE: OT: Dynamically updating /etc/mail/access

[Andrew M. Hoying]

They don't get individual email addresses like this list does. And you
can't tailor them for your environment. They are too bold, often, or not
bold enough, in their blocking.

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Thomas [mailto:sthomas at apexvoice.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:02 AM
> To: Andrew M. Hoying; MailScanner mailing list
> Cc: SpamAssassin Users' list
> Subject: RE: [SAtalk] RE: OT: Dynamically updating /etc/mail/access
> 
> 
> Isn't that the point of DNS RBLs?
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: spamassassin-talk-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> | [mailto:spamassassin-talk-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of
> | Andrew M. Hoying
> | Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:29 AM
> | To: MailScanner mailing list
> | Cc: SpamAssassin Users' list
> | Subject: [SAtalk] RE: OT: Dynamically updating /etc/mail/access
> | 
> | 
> | I'm including the spamassassin list in this because I think it is
> | relevant there as well. Has anyone thought about starting 
> some kind of
> | distributed (like razor and dcc) or community (like 
> spamassassin) based
> | effort to build a near real time access list like this? 
> Obviously this
> | list doesn't catch everything. If there was a way to submit 
> new items
> | for the list to be reviewed and added by a large group of users, or
> | automatically tested and added in some cases, I think it 
> could be even
> | more effective. Not that I'm unhappy with 70-80% of spam 
> getting blocked
> | by the current access list at my site, but more is always better.
> 
>