[ale] OT: Has your spam increased?

[Michael Phillips]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:06:27AM -0500, John C wrote:

Currently, spamcop seems to be doing the best for us....it's stopping 50-75 attempts per day (averaged over the last week)....

Mike

> I just switched to Spamhaus.  Seems to work fairly well, plus they let you
> do zone transfers from them for quicker queries.
> 
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Phillips [mailto:mike at walnut.coosavalley.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:43 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Has your spam increased?
> 
> 
> 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
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> 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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