RE: SPAM: quantities

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 08:52:33 MDT

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    In terms of preferences in allocation of time, I'd rather spend it
    improving the SpamBouncer Filtering files rather than wrestling with
    sendmail configuration files simply bouncing stuff to the old email
    address (neither of these processes I am overly familiar with and so
    both have relatively high learning curves). That might benefit everyone
    who uses Spambouncer -- though I suspect its long term effectiveness may
    be limited and I'll have to finish implementing a Bayesian solution.

    One also has the problem of having to change the email addresses for
    multiple mailing lists that one may have to do some research on to see
    how many one is a member of.

    But I would agree that the this might be a reasonable course of action.
    Alternatively one could get a "free" email account (Hotmail, etc.) and
    let the ISP deal with much of the problem.

    But if you ever run across an example of how to fix sendmail to do what
    you are discussing please send it to me.

    Robert

    On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Emlyn O'regan wrote:

    > At some point, you really need to change your email address. It's
    > surprisingly painless, give it a go :-)
    >
    > btw, is it possible, if you are running your own mailserver, to create
    > yourself a new address, kill the old one, and put your new address in the
    > error message that your mailserver produces when people try to use the old
    > address? That way, humans who send you an email to the wrong account will
    > get a message telling them the address you should be using, while spambots
    > will have no clue.
    >
    > Emlyn
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.com]
    > > Sent: Monday, 8 September 2003 3:54 AM
    > > To: Extropy List
    > > Subject: SPAM: quantities
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > Looks like I'm currently running about 150+ SPAM messages
    > > per day at 0.7+ MB in total size. And that doesn't include
    > > the not-so-few (perhaps 10-20/day) that manage to sneak past
    > > the filters.
    > >
    > > R.
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >



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