Mailing list administrative info

[Matthias Andree]

Greetings,

if you rarely mail the bogofilter lists, your initial mail in five weeks
may be delayed by several minutes, depending on your outbound mail
relay's retry schedule, and if your outbound relay is listed as a spam
hoster, you may be unable to reach the lists.


The mail server that I use to run the bogofilter lists has been under
massive spam attacks recently, hammered mostly from dynamic-IP ranges in
.CN and .PH trying to send Chinese spam to various addresses that I
forward off-site.

This has caused massive mail delays due to temporary policy rejections
in the outbound path for a few receiving domains because they (namely
GMX, where I forward some non-list mail to) decided the inbound spam
ratio was far too high.

I have had to employ restrictive measures, such as real-time DNS
blacklists (I am not banning dialups yet though), greylisting, and
header-based content-filtering that specifically targets idiocyncrasies
of the spam, and I have several larger Chinese netblocks even in the IP
filter and blackholed the whole area.

I will observe the DNS BL and greylisting in particular, to see when the
hammering subsides; if you have any concerns or trouble mailing the
bogofilter lists for legit e-mail, let me know OFF-LIST.

Sorry.

Regards,
Matthias