[PLUG] Re: Implementing only whitelisted allowed to stop spammers...

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Wed Mar 10 09:36:02 UTC 2004


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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:27:42PM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> So do you report every piece of spam you get (including those that spam
> assassin captures) to the ISPs involved?

I do, and everybody at ursine.ca gets less spam because of it.  You
don't just help yourself, you help everyone by reporting spam.

> I'm very surprised at this conclusion, but spamassassin is getting to be
> so effective that some day we might actually defeat the spammers.

But if you don't report your spam, spamassassin is only solving half
the problem.

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