[gameprogrammer] Re: Offtopic: Antispam

The best option is to talk to your ISP and get them to install something
server side. Server side
they can employ rules (spamassassin), greylisting, rbls, etc on incoming
mail.

On 11/3/06, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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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