Re: Hmm.. 2 q's

[Markus Stenberg <mstenber@cc.Helsinki.FI>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
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> >>>>> "MS" == Markus Stenberg <mstenber@cc.Helsinki.FI> writes:
> MS> First off, is there any way to make a _really_ ugly kind of filter,
> MS> i.e. for all .com From/messageid's, if messageid's domain does not match
> MS> from's domain, drop score by say -500?
> Bad idea: there is no requirement that a Message-ID string contain a domain
> name.  The only significant requirement is that every Message-ID be unique,
> so it is common to use things like user name, current time, and the FQDN of
> the machine, but none of these are required.

True. I, on other hand, don't care too much about hitting accidentally
non-spam news posts with my spam-filters.

> MS> The reason I'm asking for this is that all the stupid spam fits those
> MS> criteria, and I _really_ despise spam.
> Better to block spam at the MTA; <URL:http://www.sendmail.org/> has details.

Yes, I know ; however, the issue was matter of news-posts, not mail (sorry
if I didn't specify it) ; our domain does MTA filtering and I'm running
NAGS filter additionally, haven't seen spam-mail in a month or so.

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- Markus