easynet quits

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Stephen Swaney [mailto:steve.swaney at FSL.COM]
> Envoyé : Friday, November 21, 2003 1:22 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: easynet quits
> 
> 
> 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 


The best way to check is

http://au.spamassassin.org/tests.html

> 
> 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]
> > > >
>