Re: Dan Bernstein's issues about namedroppers list operation

[ned.freed@mrochek.com]

> 1) first run through spamassassin. Mail that is rejected here is not
>    archived, as the number of such messages is large. All mail sent to
>    mailing lists on the server hosting namedroppers is run though
>    spamassassin, so this is not a namedroppers-specific procedure.

While I have no objection to doing this, I do note that spamassassin does have
a nonnegligable false positive rate. I keep stats on this and find the rate to
be on the order of a dozen messages per month for me. And this is with a small
whitelist in place. I also find that it is getting a lot better as I add
entries to the whitelist.

It would be good for any use of spamassassin that discards messages outright
to employ a substantial whitelist, perhaps including the addresses of every
list member.

				Ned