Don't know whether it's posting on this particular list (I suspect so) or on others. But the spam volume is growing at an enormous rate.
I'm deliberately publishing [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I can kill it dead tomorrow, should I so wish. But this is *fun*.
No *single* spam is being let through (has been the case for the last 3-4 months or so, since 2.50-CVS.) No false positives, no false negatives. All spam goes to the cesspit, no spam-detected mail is being bounced, no notification to spammers. I'd previously been smtp 550-ing confirmed spam but found out that that was useless. What's really doing the job, is Bayes + the RBL/RHBL config that the SA developers have put into SA 2.60.
So, gentlemen, hat(s) off and on in ever increasing tempo.
I wonder what comes next. To my mind, attempts at legislation will prove useless. Technology will prove the savior. To get to my mail server, spam has to traverse many routers - call them Sun, Cisco, whatever - travel devious routes. A US turd (which most of the bastards are, because they are the greediest) can bounce his spam off an obliging Korean, Chinese or Malaysian proxy and reach my ISP. there are umpteen routers between him and me and each one could employ perfectly simple spam filtering, based on technology similar to SpamAssassin's. But, the filters would have to be updated frequently and neither Sun's or Cisco's present software is capable of such frequent updates.
What has Microsoft to offer (apart from Carlyle http://www.vpro.nl/info/tegenlicht/carlyle/index.html ?)
The same applies to viri - there's no need for viri - these could also be stopped at routers. But the virus vendors, Sophos, NAI, Trend etc. would then have nothing left to do - or earn.
So what's the future for spam - or virus - fighting? Anybody any ideas? And what's the future for SA? In a year's time, 5 year's time ...?
Tony
-- Tony Earnshaw
Working to get a life
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