Re: Mail Server

From: Jim Richardson (warlock_at_eskimo.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:00:09 GMT

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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:35:18 -0700,
 Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
> +Michael Heiming wrote:
>
> / ...
>
>>> The spam filter in Mozilla gets about 20 a day that pass my ISP's
>>> SpamAssassin.
>>
>> It's either not configured carefully or/and bayes isn't setup at
>> all. Anyway, I'd run SA on my own system, so you have full
>> control. Works for me, today there was not a single mail able to
>> pass behind spamd. SA is trained nightly from cron running over
>> the spam folder in my MUA, the few passing are moved manually.
>
> To digress slightly, this is such a shame. The spammers try to invent new
> ways to bombard people with increasing numbers of e-mails, and recipients
> try to create ever more ingenious filtering methods. But between the sender
> and recipients, the Internet itself is handling all that unprocessed
> rubbish, to the degree that soon, about half of all Internet traffic will
> be spam (not just half of e-mail traffic, already true).
>
> One solution is to absolutely limit the volume of e-mail from a given
> server, regardless of the sender's pure intentions. That would be the point
> I made earlier -- anything like 5000 mailings per day should be disallowed
> on principle, regardless of who the sender is.
>
> If someone claims he has to reach a lot of people, all with the same
> content, let him design a Web page. That is what they are for.
>

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Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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