[gameprogrammer] Re: Offtopic: Antispam

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 18:01 -0600, Lilith Calbridge wrote:
> 
> >>> 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? 

Yep. Basically a whole pile of zombies all sending spam. They don't run
a normal mail server. Just special spam servers.

        Bob Pendleton

>  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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