Postmaster, hostmaster etc....

Mon Apr 12 23:00:55 UTC 2004

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Niels Bakker wrote:

> * lists-nanog at silverwraith.com (Avleen Vig) [Mon 12 Apr 2004, 06:56 CEST]:
> > Forward abuse@ for all domains to just one account.
> > Repeat for each role account.
> > Run spam assassin, or other spam limitting software of your choice
> > (realize that false positives are possible).
> 
> Possible?  Make that very likely, as reports of UCE/UBE generally
> include the original mail.  Those *will* trip word counters and bayesian
> spam filters like SpamAssassin.

There should be options to override this (there are in spamassassin) to 
whitelist from domains (eg spamcop.net) and to addresses (eg abuse@). You must 
do this else as you say you will drop a lot of the complaints.. most do include 
the original spam, and those that dont are useless anyway!

Steve