Re: [Asrg] A response to the critique of my anti-spam system

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas at dvb.homelinux.org>]

On 13/12/04 11:07 -0500, Michael Kaplan wrote:
> "The problem with the bounces does not involve the small number of
> bounces sent in response to emails from legitimate senders who are not
> on the white list and who used a deactivated sub-address.  The real
> problem will be with the bounces that are sent in response to the hoard
> of spam that is being sent using a deactivated sub-address (or with no
> sub-address at all).
> 
> All emails that would have generated bounces are first sent through a
> weak spam filter (meaning one that will almost never generate a false
> positive).  Let's say that this weak filter identifies 95% of these
> emails as unambiguously being spam.  Bounces are now generated only to
> the remaining 5% of emails.  Now this system can only increase a network's
> traffic up to 5%.  This small increase in traffic should be quite
> tolerable.  We have also dramatically decreased the number of innocent

http://nixcartel.org/~devdas/minute.png

5% you say? Note that you require all that mail to be accepted in the
first place.

Devdas Bhagat

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