Re: [PLUG] spamassassin help: create a rule to score by sender TLD

[ac <ac@main.me>]

Greg,

Have you considered that;
It is not the new TLD's that are flooding your users in boxes with spam?

Have you spent the time and analized the IP numbers and actual
servers / isp's that are attacking you?

You do understand that you have to have an IP number to send an email?

You do understand, as you yourself has two names per your one ip
number, that you can have a gazillion names on a single IP number?

Have you considered that the TLD's you are blocking may be the target
of a denial of service?

Why are you not thinking about punishing the actual senders of your
spam?

have you instituted any dnsbl?

many dnsbl, for example SpamCop operates transparently 

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The spammers hide as anti spam activists, sometimes in plain sight. 

They like confusing issues and misquoting and saying all sorts of warm
fuzzy things, but there is one simple truth:

An IP number is used to deliver email to you

The server/ip admin / criminal / whatever should be punished...

What some very large companies are doing is they use the same IP
number ranges to transmit valid and legit emails as they use to earn
money from email marketing

So, when you "block" a tld, it only serves to make the spammers stronger.

2c

Andre


On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:07:32 -0400
Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote:

> Rich,
> Thank you for your latest post.  As you know I started this thread 
> because I wanted help filtering out the spam that floods from these
> new TLDs by creating a Spamassassin rule which would increase the
> score assigned to mails coming from these domains.
> 
> Since I haven't yet figured out how to do that, for the time being
> I'm going to blacklist them, since I know how to do that.
> 
> I'll check logs again before I do, but based on my last analysis, it 
> looks like domains in these TLDs will be banned:
> 
> .top
> .stream
> .club
> .gdn
> .bid
> .faith
> .co
> .download
> 
> I will verify that appropriate error messages are returned to SMTP 
> connections from these domains.
> 
> My users will be happy that I'm doing something about their
> spam-filled inboxes.  So, on their behalf as well as mine, thanks
> again.
> 

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