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Re: BOTNET Exceptions for Today

From: John Rudd <jrudd(at)ucsc.edu>
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 16:42:40 EDT

Andy Sutton wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 13:08 -0700, Bret Miller wrote:

>> When I see on the list that many people run botnet with ZERO false
>> positives, I have to ask myself, "how?

>
> Anyone who claims that isn't really looking at the email they are
> blocking, or don't believe borked DNS qualify as a FP.

I don't block based on botnet, I mark as spam based on botnet.
Botnet gets 0% false positives at one of my services (not just "borked DNS == bad", as you're suggesting, but actual "everything that triggered botnet was actually spam"). And, yes, I actually check.

You might want to have an actual basis for your claims before you go off making poorly informed generalizations about other people's mail environments. Received on Tue Aug 21 16:43:26 2007

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