[SPAM] Re: Strange but true 8.04 updates today May 26

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>         *  1.5 URIBL_OB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the OB SURBL
>>         blocklist
>>
>> Your rDNS configuration is in bad need of tlc.  A Clue Bat should be
>> applied to
>> your ISP maybe?  My guess is that the RDNS_NONE is responsible for the
>> rest of the hits, fix that and the others will go away as their lists
>> expire.
>
>Frankly, I consider spam checking by blocklist to be badly in need of a clue
>bat.  Yeah, I realize this is a bayesian filter, and that alone shouldn't
>be enough to make something register as spam, but do you really need to
>check 7 different blocklists/redlists(?? that's a new one on me)/greylists?
>--
>derek

I'm not what one could call an SA expert, this is essentially a stock install of 
3.2.4, with a weekly update script run by cron.  I was just reading the header.  
That does seem excessive to me too, FWIW.

-- 
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