Comments on: Is blocking HTML e-mail an answer? http://www.petercooper.co.uk/is-blocking-html-e-mail-an-answer-27.html Thu, 17 May 2012 07:59:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: peter http://www.petercooper.co.uk/is-blocking-html-e-mail-an-answer-27.html#comment-112 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:14:40 +0000 http://www.petercooper.co.uk/is-blocking-html-e-mail-an-answer-27.html#comment-112 I am getting about 50 a day getting through all my various filters (which includes SpamAssassin at the server end and trainable clustering stuff at the client end). 98% of it is image spam. I guess some new rules for SpamAssassin might cover these.. I refuse to use RBLs as many are poorly run and not very discerning. As I have experienced (and blogged about), some jackasses will put you on their shitlists merely for bouncing back the crap they sent you, assuming it's spam that originated at your end. I guess an open proxy RBL or two might be good though.. I am getting about 50 a day getting through all my various filters (which includes SpamAssassin at the server end and trainable clustering stuff at the client end). 98% of it is image spam. I guess some new rules for SpamAssassin might cover these..

I refuse to use RBLs as many are poorly run and not very discerning. As I have experienced (and blogged about), some jackasses will put you on their shitlists merely for bouncing back the crap they sent you, assuming it’s spam that originated at your end. I guess an open proxy RBL or two might be good though..

]]> by: Geoffrey McCaleb http://www.petercooper.co.uk/is-blocking-html-e-mail-an-answer-27.html#comment-111 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:06:24 +0000 http://www.petercooper.co.uk/is-blocking-html-e-mail-an-answer-27.html#comment-111 Hmm, do you not do a lot of online shopping? Ebay and Amazon spring to mind, I use both quite heavily (as with other etailers). Granted, as you said, whitelists could be created for those. Still, combo-plating SpamAssassin, ClamAV, as well as a good selection of RBL's on my server cut my spam rate by over 95%. Before my inbox resembled one of those virus honeypots (my addy is over a decade old). Now I barely get 1-2 a day. So why bother with such a draconian approach? Geoffrey Hmm, do you not do a lot of online shopping? Ebay and Amazon spring to mind, I use both quite heavily (as with other etailers). Granted, as you said, whitelists could be created for those.

Still, combo-plating SpamAssassin, ClamAV, as well as a good selection of RBL’s on my server cut my spam rate by over 95%. Before my inbox resembled one of those virus honeypots (my addy is over a decade old). Now I barely get 1-2 a day.

So why bother with such a draconian approach?

Geoffrey

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