Not an Outlook problem as RBLs and other blacklists operators operate at the
server level, not Outlook.
Trolling fun this weekend, eh?
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After furious head scratching, c7sparks asked:
| I agree with "your buddy". In addition to those comments, be aware
| that Microsoft (and company) is among the biggest spammers.
| What...you haven't figured that out, yet? Now, if they would
| straighten up and fly right AND stop treating us like brainless twits
| or leaning on that ever popular "I am in control and I am always
| right; therefore, I will tell you what you need, what you can have,
| and you what can and cannot do; and you must pay to keep me in
| control" attitude. It's not USA of him... it's just Microsoft's
| Messiah Complex showing again.
|
| "yourbuddy" wrote:
|
|| Interesting ...
||
|| You tend to indicate that the users are stupid (and some are - but
|| not most), and you tend to indicate that operators of RBL's are
|| stupid (and most are - but some are not). SpamCop is a "vigilante"
|| type outfit, responding to "snitches", but please educate yourself
|| on Spamhaus - which is used by government (including USA) and by
|| police agencies (including USA) and business, and particularly see
|| their XBL listing. Not all users of Outlook are uneducated - is that
|| your view of Microsoft users? You seem to have a very strange
|| attitude toward suggestions to make things better than they are. Is
|| this the general attitude of "MVP's", that Microsoft knows best - if
|| they haven't already done it, then it isn't worth doing? How USA of
|| you.
||
|| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
||
||| Microsoft desinged the filter to work out of the box and be 100%
||| free of user configuration because testing shows users either waste
||| too much time creating spam filters or never do. They've been
||| released updates monthly so that users don't need to do anything
||| but visit office update occassionally.
|||
||| As for RBLs, they suck. Users are at the mercy of vigilate RBL
||| owners and many times they block entire netblocks "just because"
||| they want to - not because the IPs actually send spam.
|||
||| "yourbuddy" wrote:
|||
|||| The Outlook Junk Email Filter should have user selectable DNSBL
|||| sources, such as the option to use the Spamhaus SBL and XBL lists.
|||| This would greatly assist in the reduction of SPAM from known
|||| sources and "spam gangs" that send most spam.
