idea for next version

[Daniel Maher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: October 10, 2006 6:19 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: idea for next version
> 

> Actually, this suggestion isn't very new. It's been made dozens of times
> over on
> the SpamAssassin list. It really doesn't work out in the general case.
> 
> Unfortunately, for most folks it's not as dramatic as 95/5.. and even for
> those
> it is, that's still a relatively poor spam rule.> 

> Quite frankly, geographic origin is a whole lot more accurate, and even
> that
> pretty well sucks. You might consider taking advantage of the RelayCountry
> plugin, and adding some rules like these (adjust scores, etc for your own
> geography:)

I sometimes envy those of you out there that can filter based on time, origin, relay, language, and other such features.  I'm sure it cuts down on your spam quite a bit.

Unfortunately for me, my incoming mail servers handle mail for time zones ranging from +10 to -8; including major offices in China and Eastern Europe.

Suffice it to say that we process /a lot/ of legitimate mail that would probably otherwise be blocked by many mail servers which are English-speaking North American centric.


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