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If an *IP address* ever sends to the catcher,
yes, the Aspam function will add the assigned number of
points.
AOL, MSN, Hotmail, Yahoo, and lots of legit mailing lists
are guilty... so my suggestion is to let it at three points and move
on.
Generally, you don't want to remove the "free email"
domains from the list - because it's useful in detecting scams... many scams
coming from all of the free email services.
However, points only apply to senders that are not yet on
the recipient's Whitelist... as once a sender is authenticated through the
Friends system, the [spamgrade] system no longer acts on the
spamgrade.
I've seen legitimate emails receive a spamgrade of 15 or
19, which is why (in a previous email) I mentioned that we (here at 1USA) push
certain things like "multi.surbl.org" up above the spamgrade of 30, 35, 40, etc.
- to make sure they get bounced or dropped, regardless of the customer's
settings.
A sender gets onto the recipient's whitelist
by:
- outbound: the customer sending an email TO that
person/email address
- inbound: the sender clicks to confirm they are not a
robot
- the customer goes into Friends Pending folder and
manually releases the messages; at which time the customer can choose to release
one particular email or to also receive all future emails from that
sender.
It is important for our customers to be in control of
their mailboxes... not the senders. No sender should be able to 'push'
their way into your mailbox.
Spam Farms use the same domain names, but different
addresses, coming from different IP addresses. (mostly infected broadband
connections.
Spam Farms use the same /24 IP address blocks for a day or
two, and change their domain names daily.
A /24 is (example) 199.224.105.1 through
255
I know this is much more than you asked for... but it's
important to see how it fits into the mix.
BarryZ
1USA
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [SurgeMail List] Has Sent To Catcher=3.0
So if an address (or domain) has ever sent a mail to a catcher,
it will get 3 points?
1usa.com">webmaster 1usa.com wrote:
BARRYZ type="cite">
g_spam_catcher
Plus, if you have any old accounts that have been closed
6 months or more, you can goto the Redirect page and redirect mails coming
into fred to the bob account, thereby blocking the brain-dead sender.
(Some senders never update their lists. Such senders never send useful
info anyway, so what the heck.)
BarryZ
1USA
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Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:39 AM
Subject: [SurgeMail List] Has Sent To Catcher=3.0
What is a sent to catcher?
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