[SURBL-Discuss] To MUNGE to not to MUNGE

[Ryan Thompson]

David Hooton wrote to SURBL Discussion list:

> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:52:38 -0400 , Chris Santerre
> <csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com> wrote:
> > I agree
>
> I disagree, this only takes into account the SA implementation of
> SURBL and does not take into account other peoples implementations
> which may still block on body text.

OK. 127.0.0.2 . Anybody who didn't get this message, please raise your
hand. :-)

Seriously, does anyone know of a publically available SURBL
implementation that processes *bare domains* in the body text of an
email? I'd like to look into it, if there is. I don't disagree with it,
but there are some tricky problems I haven't yet found good answers to.

> While I agree that it is good practice not to filter mailing lists,
> some people still do or do not have the ability not to.

More to the point, the point is not to filter _anti-spam_ mailing lists.
All sorts of nasty things happen while filtering spam mailing lists,
(especially with systems that learn). Except for the protection of
recipient privacy, we don't munge other spam characteristics to avoid
spam filters when posting example headers and emails to this list or the
SpamAssassin users list.

If there are broken systems or clients that really can not be configured
to ignore the traffic from this list, I would like to collectively focus
on assisting these people (be they software authors or server
administrators) to follow best/better practices, rather than
inconveniencing the (I'm guessing) almost total list population bare
plaintext domains don't affect.

RM makes a good point in his email, which is next on my list. :-)

- Ryan

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