easynet quits

[Stephen Swaney]

I believe the correct way to stop SpamAssassin from using it's easynet
lookups is to add the line:

score RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 0.0

spam.assassin.prefs.conf 

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
steve.swaney at fsl.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of hermit921
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: easynet quits
> 
> There is a line in spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> # skip_rbl_checks 1
> implying spamassassin will do rbl checks, but when I needed to get rid of
> the Osirus entry, I just made sure it wasn't in the
> Spam List =
> line.  That seemed to work....
> 
> hermit921
> 
> At 09:40 AM 11/21/2003, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > De : hermit921 [mailto:hermit921 at YAHOO.COM]
> > > Envoyé : Friday, November 21, 2003 12:31 PM
> > > À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Objet : easynet quits
> > >
> > >
> > > I saw the announcement below on spamtools today.  I want to
> > > verify that as
> > > long as my MailScanner.conf line is
> > >
> > > Spam List =
> > >
> > > Then this can't affect me, regardless of what any
> > > spamassassin conf file
> > > contains.  Correct?
> >
> >I don't think so. Did you disable rbl checks in your
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf?
> >If not, you probably have to disable these list.  However, I think the
> >spamassassin team will probably release a new version before the 1st of
> >dec, implementing this change.
> >
> >Hth
> >
> >Ugo
> > >
> > > hermit921
> > >
> > > =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
> > >
> > > The easynet blacklists/spamfilters (blackholes.easynet.nl,
> > > proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl, dynablock.easynet.nl,
> > > spamdomains.blackholes.easynet.nl, and the easynet spamlists) will be
> > > discontinued starting Dec 1 2003.
> > >
> > > The zonefiles and associated files will be 'zero-sized' on
> > > that day. The
> > > domains will continue to resolve for a long time, but they
> > > will contain
> > > nothing more than the test records (127.0.0.2 and
> > > example.com), so they
> > > will not catch anything.
> > >
> > > Are you being DDos'ed out of existence?
> > > - Nope. They probably tried. We didn't even notice it.
> > >
> > > Are you being sued?
> > > - Nope. They probably tried. We didn't even notice it.
> > >
> > > Are you being threatened?
> > > - Frankly, we will miss that part.
> > >
> > > [rest deleted]
> > >