linux-kernel - Re: bogofilter ate 3/5

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Message-ID: <m34pvkvhm0.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:56:55 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>
Cc:	ellis@...nics.net, w@....eu (Willy Tarreau),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bogofilter ate 3/5

Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com> writes:

> 1. Incoming mail from subscribers is accepted

How do you know if the sender is really a subscriber?

> 4. A handy Perl script subscribes to lkml, and for any message it gets
> with an X-Bogofilter: SPAM header, it sends a notification
> (rate-limited) to the message sender

How do you know who the sender really is? IMHO bouncing anything
(especially spam) after SMTP OK is worse than the spam itself.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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