Geocities (was: Re: Help with DBIx::SearchBuilder::Handle::Oracle...)

[Luis Campos de Carvalho]

--- David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> escreveu:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:40:08AM -0500, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > On 9 Dec 2005, at 18:33, David Cantrell wrote:
> > >stop filtering mail from known-clean mailing lists like this one for
> > >  spam;
> > This doesn't help the guy when he's being filtered elsewhere. It was 
> > just a heads-up for him.
> 
> Hence ...
> 
> >> But a lot of places will just block and delete.
> > Then I suggest that those places ...
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> > > and then get some decent anti-spam software.
> > I wish I had full control of everyone's systems (even on the one I work 
> > on, it was filtered by an external company's filter, not my code). 
> 
> Again, this is something that those other places should do.  At minimum
> anti-spam software and the policies surrounding it need to permit users
> to whitelist mailing lists which they subscribe to - or to ask an admin
> to do it for them.
> 
> > Unfortunately the severity of the geocities issue has meant some 
> > collateral damage has had to occur in order to protect customers from 
> > the general abuse.
> 
> At least with the spam I see, I don't find geocities to be important.
> And while I no doubt see less spam than $antispamco does, I suspect that
> it at least has a very similar profile.
> 
> -- 
> David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator Of The World
> 
>       Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups
> 

  Oh, gods... you're still flamming^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htalking about this? I've changed my tagline two
weeks ago... ;-)


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Luis Campos de Carvalho
Member of "São Paulo Perl Mongers",
Unix SysAdmin & OCP/DBA Oracle


	



	
		
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