[SATLUG] spam-fighting techniques

[Travis H.]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:57:13PM -0500, Justizin wrote:
> Don't forget feeding vipul razor. :)

Heh, yep.

> What do you think you would randomize?

What tools are in use at the SMTP level and at the local delivery level.

Maybe what weights are applied to the various criteria.

> An appliance is not a bad
> idea, though I'm all for entirely managed services.

I don't like the idea of storing my data on someone else's computers,
for the usual reasons, security, proper expungement, etc.

Not only that but they're pretty free to do whatever they want to it.
Ownership being 9/10ths of the law, and all that.

If their privacy policy forbids it, then what if they get bought
by another company?

If the law forbids it today, what if it changes tomorrow?

What happens if they start mining it for marketing purposes?
How would you know?

What if you need some kind of hard-to-implement feature or exception?

All this may be possible with network traffic, but it's damn near
trivial with mesasges that actually go through 3rd parties at the
SMTP protocol level.

Nope, too many silent failure modes.  That's why you'll see me
posting from here instead of gmail from now on.

If my box is down for so long my email starts getting expunged from
queues undelivered, something is very wrong.
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