[conspire] How not to do antispam, latest in a continuing series

[Ruben Safir]

On 02/21/2015 07:52 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 02/21/2015 07:47 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
>> Not quite as bad as a Challenge-Response (C-R) mailbot, but in that ball
>> park.  (Folks, if you're going to have your mail software reject mail,
>> it's best to do it during the incoming SMTP conversation, not after MTA
>> acceptance and closing of the SMTP socket.  It appears in Ruben's case
>> that he's running some sort of autoreject bot based on BSD mailx at the
>> Local Delivery Agent step, after mail acceptance.)
>>
>> I'm _assuming_ that this is failed antispam.  If it's killfiling, that's
>> a bit awkward given that it appears to be rejection of mail arriving
>> from one of my mailing lists to which Ruben subcribed -- probably this
>> mailing list.  (Killfiling the listadmin is usually a bad idea.)
>>
> 
> it is an experiment gone awry that the moment.  I'll have to get back to
> it later.
> 
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