TO all anti-spam enthusiasts

[Alain Spineux]

Hi

Recently, I saw a lot of post about activating some "postfix antispam" features.

I would like to react!

The first goal of an email system is to exchange messages between peoples.
Anything that prevent messages to pass through must be discuss with care!
Anything that menace the system must be hardly fought!

Virus contain a security risk and must be fought without mercy.
SPAMS are a calamity for all of us but don't contains any security risk!
While measures against SPAMS can break the exchange of messages.
They are still lot of server not well configured: with bad helo announce,
without a reverse DNS records ...., that will suffer of these choices.

Anything that could prevent a legitimate message to reach its destination
should be optional and at the discretion of the administrator to activate them
or not.

Most of the SPAMMER know the rules and the usage of SMTP protocol better
than us and already (or will) bypass these "static" options.

Only grey and black listing are "dynamic" measures against SPAM that
SPAMMER cannot control!

Regards

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Alain Spineux
aspineux gmail com
May the sources be with you