[Mailman-Developers] before next release: disable backscatterindefault installation

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 01:18 +0000, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > blacklists
> > are under control of the operators of the lists who guarantee no due
> > process and are accountable to no one.
> 
> Who says that benevolent-dictator blacklists cannot be an effective 
> response to the spam prolem?
> 
> And of course it is untrue that these benevolent dictators are accountable 
> to no one.  They are accountable to the users of their blacklists.

Absolutely!  I use a mix of 6 advisroy blacklists on my mail server.
For my personal account, these stop about 80% of the spam sent to me,
and probably a similar percentage for my customers and my mailing lists.
I haven't had a complaint about a false positive from these blacklists
in well over a year.  The last time I got such a report was on an IP
address blocked because it was listed by Spamcop - one of several false
positives from this source.  I dropped Spamcop from the mix and have had
no such problems since then.

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