Re: Botnet 0.8 Plugin is available (FINALLY!!!)

Hanz wrote:

> [L]ooking at the debug code, I notice that botnet,pm version 0.8 is only
> checking the last server IP and not all IPs in the path.

Which is correct, if you checked the originating address in the list then all messages sent from home (through your ISP or work) would be marked as dynamic, and therefore possible bot, which is not true.

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> I believe if botnet.pm is checking all the path the mail went thru like how
> dnsbl is used,

If a dnsbl does that, it is wrong and worthless. What dnsbl checks mail messages anyway? they respond to queries about IPs, not message routes.

> botnet will get more accurate. I could be wrong on this but
> for the shake of fighting spam,I hope I am right and you could find a way to
> get this to work.

You are wrong.

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René Berber