Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:48:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: Stupid anti-spam testings... |
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:28:37PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > ... > > > Folks, when you deploy that kind of testers, DO VERIFY THAT THEY > > > HAVE SANE CACHES! A positive result shall be cached for at least > > > two hours, a negative result shall be cached for at least 30 minutes. > > > > Do you know if this is one of the default checks from spamassassin? > > No idea. I have seen these coming from Exim 4.10, Exim-something, > some sendmail milter (whatever that is), etc.. > > Apparently the idea (which I have thought of long ago, and rejected > as incomplete) has caught, and has multiple implementations...
Personally i don't think this kind of tests are going to reduce the spam that much but a simple lookup in the subscribers database might help reducing the smtp-test traffic only for non-subscriber addresses.
- Davide
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