[gameprogrammer] Re: Offtopic: Antispam


>>> On 11/2/2006 at 5:11 PM, in message
<1162509071.4915.28.camel@localhost>, Bob
Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:18 -0800, Kevin Jenkins wrote:
>> The amount of spam I've been getting lately makes it impossible to 
>> work.  The filter that comes with Thunderbird only catches about
half 
>> because the spammers use images that show up even though I have
images 
>> disabled.  Does anyone know of a good anti-spam system that works 
>> Thunderbird?
> 
> I use a combination of filtering at my mail server and spamassassin.
It
> works pretty well, but is in no way perfect. I have read that this
new
> wave of spam is being sent using botnets so most antispam systems
fail
> to stop it. About the only thing that works are challenge response
> systems and white lists.

By botnets are you talking about zombie smtp servers?  I've been
getting
a slew of complaints from Spamcop about workstations on one particular
subnet.  Unfortunately, because too many network based activities go
on
in the labs, we don't shut things down at the firewall on the
educational side,
just the administrative network.  The educational people depend, 
apparently, on a program called Deep Freeze to abort any additional
programs
when the workstation is rebooted.  Seems to be working.... NOT!
 
>               Bob Pendleton

Lilith

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