[SURBL-Discuss] Hi I'm new and I like SURBL

[Steven Champeon]

on Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:20:40AM -0800, Jeff Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 6:57:36 AM, Paul Schwarz wrote:
> > What rates of spam detection are you getting with surbl ? And what methods
> > do you use to complement it.   I would like to run some RFC checks but some
> > of them seem to stringent.... I.E - Reverse PTR checks, etc
> 
> RFC checks, reverse DNS lookups, etc are nearly worthless since
> so many mailers are not configured correctly.

I must admit that I'm finding it difficult to make any sense of this
statement at all. 

"Many mail servers are broken, so checking for brokenness is not useful?"

I tend to view this another way:

"If you do not accept mail from broken mail servers, maybe the idiots
responsible for their being broken will fix the damn things."

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