spam issues

[Wil McGilvery]

I would think blocking domains is worse than the RBL lists.

I have started using an email gateway called messagewall.

It has a number of checks included rbl lists, reverse DNS on MX records and a lot more.

Since implementing this setup our spam has become almost no existent and is no longer considered a problem. (I still get one or two a day).

I may be wrong, but a lot of spam claims to be from one domain, but isn't really. Making sure that the mail comes form where it claims to have originated is the best way.

I gave up on Spam Assassin and those types of programs because it seemed to
Be a losing battle.


Regards,

Wil McGilvery
Manager
Lynch Digital Media Inc

         

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-----Original Message-----
From: Net Llama! [mailto:netllama at linux-sxs.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:33 PM
To: linux SxS

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, ronnie gauthier wrote:
> I've had it with spam, RBL's bite. So what to do?
> I have taken drastic measures. I wish others would follow suit. We could kill
> spam in short order. How? I have got fed up with yahoo a while back and blocked
> them. A while back I had a rash of spam from comcast.com and mail them and
> complained heavily, it stopped. Until this week. Now comcast is blocked.
> When I say blocked I dont mean filtered I mean blocked from all my domains and
> clients mail servers. FSCK to domains with a lax attitude about spam, let them
> eat bounces.

what is that solving?  spam preys on the weakest link & lowest common
denominator.  blocking off entire netblocks is just cutting off your nose
to spite your face.

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