[AusNOG] apnic - desi valli spam?!

Damien Derby damien at distributeit.com.au
Fri Feb 20 15:09:46 EST 2009


Ah OK. That makes sense then.

On 20/02/2009, at 1:51 PM, Shaun Ewing wrote:

> On 20/02/09 1:45 PM, "dasmo" <dasmo at dasmo.net> wrote:
>
>> Gee, you must get some false positives then.
>>
>> He was sending it to an intended audience, looked like he only sent  
>> to
>> those intended and there's nothing too strange in the headers, other
>> than no x-mailer, which is fairly common (this list sends in a fairly
>> similar way). He sent it out in a batch too quick for DNSBL. If  
>> you're
>> blocking email like that then you must be blocking more than spam.
>
> It was picked up by the Barracuda intent filters, which means that  
> others
> using Barracuda must have already been marking that message as spam  
> before
> it hit our network (one message sent yesterday got through, it's the  
> ones
> from today that didn't).
>
> Can't remember the last time I seen a false positive (I wouldn't  
> consider
> the message in question a false positive).
>
> -Shaun
>




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