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Collateral Damage in the Spam War

MarkedMan writes "The link points to a well researched article on Spam lists and those innocently appended to them. I have seen this myself with MailWasher. A posting will come through as potential spam, with the the bounce already red-flagged, but it is actually from a legitimate source. Only happens once or twice a month but still cause for worry. " I've found that Spam Assassin has made life easier, but I still have to ban domains like yahoo.com, hotmail.com, mail.com - and *.ru and *.cn. I sort through the spam periodically, but the collateral damage is still there.

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  1. Re:Do what my friend does... by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great when you are a 1337 d00d at home. The real issue though is when you are an admin for a solvent corporation. Draconian e mail becomes very tough.
    Karl