[Mimedefang] Scary... Filtering on the outbound.

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Fri Feb 18 00:55:38 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 21:47, John Scully wrote:

> A sub could send a few emails scoring anything (could be a personal 
> porn-o-gram to someone :) but the higher the number of messages the lower 
> the average score can be to trigger blocking.  Rate of transmission also 
> weights the decision - sending 100 in a few minutes is treated like sending 
> 1,000 over a longer time.

Are you looking at the number of recipient addresses or the number
of messages for this test?  Or does the current crop of spam-worms
generally send a message per recipient?

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com




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