Re: do we want SPAM?

those 99% success sounds great, I thought it may hit 10 to 20%, because my headers and RFC restrictions with DNS checks (also DNS mail-spam checker) only does about 10%.. so I will give SpamAssassin a try... thanks for reporting those results! On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:32:18 -0800 Robin Johnson <robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:56:08AM +0100, Mirco MEEBEY Bauer wrote: > > Of course PHP doesn't sell those email adresses, I only said that as a possibility to > > narrow it down to the email > > spiders that have fun on news.php.net > > btw I just got the second spam email through my pear-dev account, interessting is I > > can't find any indicator that it > > has something todo with the first spam email, different emailsservers, different headers, > > different country, different > > email client.. > > it's too bad thats too late using meebey@php.net to avoid spam, the php email > > addresses have those anti-spam thing.... > those 'anti-spam things' only stop a very small part of the spam, > particually when you address has been on the internet for a long time. > > take my personal address for example: > robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net > I also have a few forwarding addresses, the most notable of which is: > robbat2@users.sourceforge.net > > It's been around for about 2 1/2 years so far. I'm very active in the > internet however, so it gets around. Searching the net for those > addresses will get you my contributions to the linux kernel, PHP and > Apache (included in the changelog for a fix I submitted), as well as > many instances of phpMyAdmin (with my SourceForge address). Searching > just on my handle 'robbat2' which is almost entirely unique to me (the > only exception is this page: Øo > ŠÖ’ErG=‘
¦Thttp://advancegames.com/robbat2.html) > > I personally get approx 200 spam a day. I don't consider that to be a > lot. > > > Maybe I will add something like that to my emailserver, I am sick of spam... > > Filtering I don't like, because it only fetches some of the spam. > I did also have concerns about filtering at first, but I was very > pleased with the results. I don't delete the incoming messages directly, > I direct them to a Spam folder for each user using procmail. It is then > up to the user to delete them automatically or review them to check for > non-spam (false positives) in the spam folder. I still review my spam > folder manually to check for those false positives, but I must admit, it > is a LOT faster than having to remove them from everywhere else. > > > My emailserver configuration I made already tiedest as I can do, so those cheap spam is > > rejected (e.g. bad headers or not existing domains) > For the medium (100 users) mail server I run, with SpamAssassin+DCC+Pyzor > I get ~99% sucess on ~2000 spam/day. > I'm a bit looser on on part bad headers personally, namely I have the > reverse DNS checks turned off, because I have a few complaints from my > users that ended up being stupid ISPs that don't set them up right. > > Throw in a simple DCC+Pyzor+SpamAssassin to your mailserver, and you'll > be pleased with the results. > > -- > Robin Hugh Johnson > E-Mail : robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net > Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 > ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 > GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 > Mirco Bauer aka MEEBEY -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d s-: a--- C++ UL++>++++ P L++$>+++$ E W+++$ N o? K- w++>! O- M- V? PS PE+ Y- PGP>++ t 5+ X++ R tv+ b+ DI? D+ G>++ e h! r>++ y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------