No, hits=-33.0 required=5.0
	tests=AWL,BUGZILLA_BUG,FORGED_RCVD_TRAIL,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,
	      NO_REAL_NAME,T_NONSENSE_FROM_00_10
	version=2.50-cvs

No, hits=-6.8 required=7.0
	tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,FORGED_RCVD_TRAIL,FOR_FREE,IN_REP_TO,
	      KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,
	      SUBJECT_IS_NEWS,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL
	version=2.40-cvs

There is a whitelist RBL now!  Ironport's Bonded Sender is
basically a whitelist RBL where you post a bond to get on the
list, and then lose the bond if you end up spamming from that IP
address (or something like that).  http://www.bondedsender.org/
C
On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 07:58  PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> 4. DNSBL: Only certifies an ip address, not who is using it. As it is
>> currently used, DNSBL allows you to look up if some IP address
>> has been
>> blacklisted by someone. What I haven't seen is a service that
>> provides a
>> DNS based whitelist.
>
> There's a practical reason for that:  Any DNS list (white or
> black) works
> only for a limited number of IPs; the set of unlisted IPs is
> much larger
> than the set in the DNS list.  If you have to make a binary decision to
> accept or reject, you'll be wrong less often if you reject the
> blacklist
> and accept everything else, rather than accept the whitelist and reject
> everything else.
>
> A whitelist is only helpful when (a) you only want mail from a limited
> number of known sources, or (b) you can use a secondary system
> like SA to
> decide what to do with the vast unlisted masses.  Most MTAs still make
> only the binary decision, because the secondary computation is
> expensive.
>
> With SA's cooperation, though, it might be worth a try.  Even better if
> one could get commercial anti-spam outfits to agree to factor it in.
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