Re: Spam and NDR

"Robert Williams"
<RobertW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>To each, his own. We are a small company with 10 employees, we don't get 1000's
>of emails per day. We did at one point, but now that I use 3 different blocking
>lists and ORFilter, their e-mails have to pass those filters first, if they do,
>then I screen them. I now get maybe 100-200 emails per week.

If you're concerned that you won't receive "important mail" becasue
it's badly addressed, have you considered that the use of 3rd-party
DNS RBL's might also be preventing you from receiving legitimate mail
simply because it originates from an IP address that's been deemed a
"spam source"? That logic seems a bit off-kilter to me.

If you use, for example, SORBS and accept their "spam" list as gospel
you're probably discarding "good" mail.

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Rich Matheisen
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