Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:09:45 -0500 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Cc: John <john@starfire.mn.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions? Message-ID: <20100427200945.GB92209@elwood.starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <861ve0he9d.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <20100427193106.GA91570@elwood.starfire.mn.org> <861ve0he9d.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John <john@starfire.mn.org> writes: > > John> (Obviously, I'll want to add to my cron scripts to age entries out > John> of the spammers table, just to keep it down to a manageable size. > John> I already have two dozen entries.) > > You'll have a lot of collateral damage. I've worked with a lot of > schemes over the years for spamfighting. A lot of spam is sourced > inside corporate or educational choke points, meaning that a spam > message from inside a company would block all remaining mail from that > company. So, for this to work, you really need to time out your blocks > no more than an hour or two later, or legit mail will get unnecessarily > delayed. Yes - I'm watching for this, and will have to adjust the timeouts accordingly - hasn't happened yet, but I can believe that it will... > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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