[gameprogrammer] Re: Offtopic: Antispam

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:42 -0700, Ken Johnson wrote:
> 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.

I run my own mail server :-) and I do most of that already. I found that
grey listing only seems to block poorly configured legitimate email
servers. Rbls are good, but the current crop of spam defeats them.
Spamassassin is good, but it too is not working on a lot of spam. I get
about 300 spams a day, about 15 get into my in box. Without spam filters
I would have to give up using email.

        Bob Pendleton

> 
> 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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