OT: Dropping sp4m volume?

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:46:01PM -0400,
Bob Stockler blabbed on about:
> I use IgLou as do you.  I don't _think_ they filter any email
> before I pick it up.  But I know they do add to the headers of
> my incoming email X-Warning-RBL lines from (or through?) sites
> that are on their many blacklists (or sites that maintain black-
> lists?).

Easy to tell--does rdsmtp.iglou.com (or any of the IgLou mail servers) show
up in the Received headers?  If not, then the RBL headers are coming from
elsewhere.

> When I was getting my email using UUCP via phone from IgLou,
> sometimes my phone line would be tied up for hours getting
> those emails that said they held the latest MicroSoft patches.

A lot of that goes away if you procmail on the server side.

> I now get much less than that, sometimes 20-40, sometime more,
> sometimes less, in my spam mailbox.

I'm surprised.  Hmmm.  Maybe everyone's just getting more robust filters,
but maybe--just maybe--the level's actually dropping some.

> I've noticed a distinct decrease in spam email reaching me,
> though I get a few every day or so that SpamAssassin doesn't
> catch (and that _seems_ to be increasing).

Fooling the beysian filters is apparently fairly trivial based on messages
I've seen get past them.  If you do enough things right to offset the
negative things, you can sneak things through.

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