Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:47:58 -0500 (CDT) From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] ISP anti-spam Message-ID: <200207070347.g673lwM32615@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200207040113.g641DFL87663_tierzero.apana.org.au@ns.sol.net> References: <200207040113.g641DFL87663_tierzero.apana.org.au@ns.sol.net>
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In article <200207040113.g641DFL87663_tierzero.apana.org.au@ns.sol.net>, bastill@sa.apana.org.au writes: > There seems to be a movement among ISPs to "help" us by applying spamassasin > (or similar) to all mail they handle - IN or OUT. > Is this an invasion of privacy? > Is such behaviour dangerous, in suggesting to political control freaks that > Internet Control is possible and desirable? > Would it be MUCH better for all users to be encouraged to use spam filters, > if they wish? > > What do people think on these and related issues? My ISP (visi.com, in Mpls, MN) uses SpamAssassin as a filter, but does not do anything about mail that SpamAssassin flags as spam. I think this a great thing - I wrote a sendmail ruleset to examine the X-Spam-Status mail header, discarding mail based on the SpamAssassin statuses I choose, rather than my ISP discarding mail based on what SpamAssassin thinks is spam. IANAL, but I think that an ISP who discards their customer's mail based on an evaluation like SpamAssassin does could be bucking for a lawsuit. Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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