
> I'm starting to read the newsgroups myself, as there are posts getting
> there now that aren't hitting the lists, and, consequently, 
> just getting
> dead air ... not many, mind you, but still, its one more user 
> that MySQL
> isn't getting :)
> 
> Quite frankly, one spam coming in out how *how many* proper posts,
> especially with the news<->mail gateway in place, isn't too 
> bad ... now
> just have to figure out how that one got through :(

For me the problem is not spam that comes to the list, since that is indeed
not so much, but since the feed started I need a private spam filter,
which I did not need before.

With a simple pop account is there a way to avoid downloading the spam 
over my slow modem line ? That is, make it bounce from the pop server ?
How do you guys avoid private spam ?

Andreas

Thu, 4 May 2000 10:44:16 +0200 
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:

> With a simple pop account is there a way to avoid downloading the spam 
> over my slow modem line ? That is, make it bounce from the pop server ?
> How do you guys avoid private spam ?

I control my own domain and since there are no customers on michvhf.com
I make sure anyone who connects to my SMTP port has working reverse DNS,
I have a long list of domains that spam regularly, another list of IP
blocks that have been spamming and I use MAPS.  According to the logs,
all of these are turning around more than 100 spams a day - and I still
get (on some days) 50-100 more that actually get around all of that.  I
also use some disposable email addresses so I can see where the address
was culled from and drop the address when it happens.  Not very successful
tho - I guess I can only call it 50% at times.

Vince.
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