classiccmp list (sort of) help requested

That's kind of what I've been doing with procmail. Lately I have said screw it and, in addition to DNSBLs, added sendmail rules to drop connections and some other tricks. I think Bayesian filtering is going to go the way of all other filtration because, as someone else already pointed out, spammers are including extracts of "normal" though unrelated text to defeat such analyses. I think the future will unfortunately be IP and network-based blocklists, and while the cure can be worse than the disease (increased possibility of false positives), the spamming community has proven that while they lack in ethics, they do not lack in innovation. The only cure for that is out-and-out ostracism of the networks that tolerate such behaviour. I have also gotten quite frustrated with various list echoes (not this one) that expose real E-mail addresses to the web. Since they have said they won't fix it, I'll name the worst offender I've dealt with, and that's the NetBSD lists. For that reason I have kept my postings to it to a minimum. Their mail admin basically said, "well, we thought it over briefly but we really don't care," and while I am a regular NetBSD user, that kind of attitude probably explains why the project is second-fiddle to the other BSDs, let alone Linux. Anyway, rant off, sorry. -- --------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- "I don't think so," said Descartes, and he vanished. -----------------------