[SURBL-Discuss] Mailing list gets bounces from my mail providerbecause of surbl

mouss mouss at ml.netoyen.net
Fri Apr 17 23:25:32 CEST 2009


Jeff Chan a écrit :
> On 4/16/09, Kevin Olson <kevino at mxtools.com> wrote:
>>  It looks like it was Postini that blocked a message,
>>  based on a SURBL listing for medlistsources<munged>.com.
> 
> Thanks for the reference.  It looks like the "I sell lists of doctors'
> email addresses spammer" is sending spam to debian mailing lists.  A
> couple responses to this:
> 
> 1.  The debian list admins should do a better job of filtering spam
> from their lists, including by using SURBLs.
> 

They are trying hard. They use policyd-weight, spamassassin, ... etc.

> 2.  The list receivers could whitelist the debian lists around their
> local spam filtering, but this is really fixing the problem in the
> wrong way.  There should not be spam on the mailing lists in the first
> place.
> 

unfortunately, this is not realistic.


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