On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > I'll look into it. I need some way to kill the spam that goes through my > servers. Yesterday I received an email from Brazil. I'm not real sure what > it > said, but it looked official, made several references to "spam," and quoted at > the bottom something that looked like legal text. I'm assuming that they > received some spam with a message ID that matched one of my machines.
My setup: exim from sid, with the hack dman mentioned about a week ago in the configs to run everything through spamassassin (this causes most of the spam to be tagged with an extra header to make it bloody easy for users to procmail filter it, and ****SPAM**** added to the beginning of the subject line for easy visual identification). Most spam doesn't make it that far, I have exim configured to use about a dozen RBLs, which takes out the spam that isn't worth reporting due to ISP inaction on the issue. The last two RBLs in my config don't list anything but every IP address assigned to Korea, and the other every IP assigned to China, since it doesn't appear any admins in either country have a clue. This at least gets it so what does make it through is most likely coming from an ISP that takes action on such issues. Report *all* spam, period. spamcop.net automates this, you will see dramatic reductions in spam after a few weeks. Just as a test, we set up an account on a server with no spam filtering whatsoever and put the address on some fairly regularly spambot-crawled webboards. It got up to recieving 40 spams/day. We started reporting it. It dropped to 3 spams a day within two weeks, and that spam would have been blackholed by the RBLs if it was an address on ursine (most of what was left came from China, Korea, or Postmaster General, Inc). > Or why they don't include the sound card specs, etc., with the PC > documentation. Yeah, but at least that's not dangerous if you have to do a little guesswork. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
