On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > helps catching 95%... But the bandwidth is still used... I'm still looking > > for > > a pure MTA solution... > > A pure MTA solution would still need to scan the body and thus would still > eat your bandwidth.
So I noticed. Very few (only 2-3 out of about 500/day for about 5 days now) actually managed to get past my bogofilter+SA setup, but it's using up a lot of bandwidth. I'd hate to have to pay for wasted bandwidth. > The list of hardware required to stop this spam unfortunately seems to > include a time machine. [snip] I've resorted to blocking port 25 to subnets from which these spams originate. Currently I have about 45 subnets (/24 and a few /16) on my blacklist, and so far 409 connections have been dropped. This is only since 2pm today. The problem with this is that you have to hand-pick subnets to prevent inadvertently blocking legitimate mails. I hate to be spending so much time on this, but I really can't see myself paying for extra bandwidth caused by this spam. It's sorta a last-resort thing. Unfortunately, this is not a safe thing to do on the Debian mailing list servers. T -- Long, long ago, the ancient Chinese invented a device that lets them see through walls. It was called the "window".
