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- # [Relay Spam Stopper]
- #
- # Description: "Whether to use the RSS to determine if mail is junk mail"
- # Keywords: "MAPS, RSS, Relay Spam Stopper, Vixie, Paul Vixie, mail relay, ban, blackhole, rejection methods"
- # Category: "Junk mail detection"
- # Format: "{TRUE OR FALSE}"
- #
- # The Relay Spam Stopper List, or RSS, is a listing of Internet TCP/IP
- # addresses known to relay spam. Note: this is not a listing of hosts
- # that generate spam, only those hosts that are openly relaying spam.
- #
- # This blacklist is maintained independently of MailShield. For more
- # information about the RSS, see http://maps.vix.com/rss/
- #
- # The RSS is an effective way of drastically reducing the amount of spam
- # that you receive. However, if you enable the RSS test, it is likely that
- # you will also accidentally refuse valid email. The reason for this is
- # that the RSS bans all email coming from a given set of TCP/IP addresses.
- # For example, if an ISP has been banned because they have relayed spam
- # from their mail servers, then all mail from that ISP will be banned,
- # not just the spam.
- #
- # For this reason, the RSS is as much a political act as it is a technical
- # solution for solving spam. Because the RSS inconveniences innocent
- # people, those innocent people complain to their ISPs, and this, in turn,
- # forces the ISP to enact stronger anti-spam measures, in order to get off
- # the RSS ban list. In this regard, the RSS is similar to a product
- # boycott.
- #
- # We do not recommend that this setting be enabled if it is important to you
- # to not reject valid mail. On the other hand, if you fully understand the
- # implications of the RSS for your system's mail, and you want to
- # participate, then you should enable this feature, as the RSS has been
- # effective in getting ISPs to secure their relay hosts in order be removed
- # from the ban.
- #
- # By default, this setting is disabled.
- #
- # Instructions: "Please enter the word TRUE or the word FALSE below."
- FALSE
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