spam issues

[Matthew Carpenter]

Using the appropriate RBL's can lead to a drop in 95% of all spam, and I have
yet to hear complaints.  The trick is choosing RBL's that are comprehensive,
deterministic, and responsive.  This means that some of the RBL's out there
that don't allow your servers off the list when closed just don't find their
way in my config.  

I also use SpamAssassin and Bogofilter (Bayesian algorithm) and tagging
(allowing the filtering to be done at the client or last server with
procmail/sieve instead of at the front-end servers.  Since I also use RBL's I
can't tell you how effective these are.  I hardly ever see spam...

Frying Spam:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/03/06/index2a.html



On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:13:52 -0500
ronnie gauthier <ronnieg at chartermi.net> 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.