Bob Beck <beck@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca> writes:

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> 	spews has been dead for a while. this is why with
> recent releases of openbsd, we don't include it in the example
> files anymore - spews started taking a tack of basically
> including every ISP on the planet, since only big companies
> should be able to send mail. which, of course, is bullshit.

Now you mention it, I think I heard some months back that it was no
longer maintained.  I used it for a while back in 2004, but there were
just too many false positives (including the entire range for an ISP
where the owner of a house I was considering buying at the time was a
customer), so we ditched it after a few weeks.  Looking at the data
(the netmasks! the netmasks!) I would say they won't be missed.

Anyway, good to see that the sample spamd.conf is actively maintained.
Not that I would expect otherwise, of course.

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> 	I use uatraps and nixspam.

Nixspam, from descriptions they put on their web seems to be run
according to sound principles at least (hm. footnote material
possibly). And as you are probably aware, I like uatraps a lot (even
if in my spamd.confs it has a different name, I was an early tester
who never stopped - better change my examples), and greytrapping is
still just too much fun (see .signature for blog ref) to quit doing.

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> 	China and korea are still relatively accurate, but
> for my mind, of dubious value - I do not use them myself, 
> perfering to rely on *actual* spam sources rather than just
> countries that are unresponsive to spam complaints. That 
> may have been valid 5 years ago, but IMO, now most of the
> world is numb to them, not just China and Korea.

My sentiments exactly.  Plus, if I blacklisted all of China, I
wouldn't be able to communicate with the people who built my laptop!

- Peter

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.