On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:29 +0100, Sean O Sullivan wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > >>Manipulating aliases is the wrong approach. Tighten your filters. > >>Personally, I loathe spam assassin. The rbls like SORBS and Spamhaus get > >>the job done rather nicely. > >Why loathe? It can use SORBS and Spamhaus, *plus* other things. > > > Yes ... the orignal topic was boring, time to go on mini-side rant/topic :) > > Curious in your loathing also, because of SA's resource usage or ... ? > Ponderous, unnecessary and costly in resources. That's just my opinion. Moreover, it's yet another piece of code to maintain. There are certain things that spammers do (which I will not discuss in the open) that create zero-false-positive "signatures" that are easy to eliminate with most MTAs. On top of that, the origination of most spam is VERY predictable. -- Multi-RBL Check: http://www.TQMcube.com/rblcheck.htm Kill Spam at the Source: http://www.TQMcube.com/spam_trap.htm Today's Spam Trap Adds: http://www.TQMcube.com/BlockedToday RBLDNSD HowTo: http://www.TQMcube.com/rbldnsd.htm
