[ale] OT: Has your spam increased?

[Michael Phillips]

I've been fighting this problem since I started using the Internet....as an ISP and as an Admin.....

Lately, I have found that the combination of the RBL+ (www.mail-abuse.org - subscription for business use, free for hobby use), Spamhaus RBL (www.spamhaus.org) and Spamcop RBL(www.spamcop.net - currently free, could go commercial) are stopping 70% of the spam coming into my mail server at work.

These three all work well with Postifx and I would assume other MTA's out there.

YMMV of course.

Mike


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Michael Phillips			mike at coosavalley.net
Talladega, AL 35160			http://trcc.coosavalley.net

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 08:11:01PM -0800, Fulton Green wrote:
> Somewhat related ... today I attempted to, and mostly succeeded in,
> tracking down the open mail relays responsible for generating approximately
> a dozen spams over the past two days. It's extremely exhausting; the vast
> majority of the spams are relayed from the Pacific Rim countries, with
> some countries having their own NIC and/or domain registry. Then there's the
> whole language barrier ...
> 
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:33:16PM -0500, Greg wrote:
> > A way to decrease ads is found below.  I have implemented it in IE, Opera,
> > Netscape, and Mozilla.  Anytime I find another ad server, I just add it to
> > the list.
> > 
> > http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml
> 
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