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[Bug 6378] [RFE] RIR based Regional Rules

https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6378

Karsten Bräckelmann <gu...@rudersport.de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|PLEASE let us assign        |[RFE] RIR based Regional
                   |RIPE/APNIC scores           |Rules

--- Comment #7 from Karsten Bräckelmann <gu...@rudersport.de> 2010-03-15 18:35:50 UTC ---
Don't get me wrong, I'm not strictly against this. And in fact I do use the
RelayCountry plugin.

However, this *is* a rather sharp blade to hand out to the unwary admin.
Scoring entire continents. Such rules absolutely need to ship with a big red
warning. I already can see admins all over the place shooting their own foot.

Requests for regional rules are not new. Not for spam filtering, not on
firewall lists I've been on. And it quickly became clear, that rejecting
connections from "east of UTC" wasn't exactly what was anticipated... ;)  But I
digress slightly.

Again, the rules would not be hard to write. Maintaining them, and preventing
them from getting stale are a different topic. The RelayPlugin works, and
adding the ccTLDs of the relays to a header give a special bonus for Bayes.

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