Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 17:31:50 -0400 From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stopping mailspam without tears... Message-ID: <19970530173150.45564@cybernothing.org> In-Reply-To: <1057.865023994@critter.dk.tfs.com> [9705.30] References: <1057.865023994@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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That's a cool idea, but it still involves your accepting the mail (takes up bandwidth, CPU) and storing it (disk.) Of course, I'm crazy enough to play with sendmail.cf. *grin* Rumour has it that Eric Allman is planning to include some anti-spam hacks in the next distribution; for those who are impatient, most of 'em are already available at various sites linked from http://spam.abuse.net/. If you're big on filtering, a combination of your idea, the various check_* hacks, TCP wrappers or other firewalling, and user-level Procmail should cut out a lot of spam; the reason I suggest a combination is because no one filtering method gets everything, and your script is perfect as a last-ditch effort for anything that somehow got through. (Quick off-topic plug: the best way to stop spam is to stop it at the source. http://www.cauce.org/ for more info. I'd rather not get into a discussion of that here, though, 'cause I'm already on lots of spam-related mailing lists.) ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | "There's something quite primeval about | | squeezing half a dead goat until it bleats." | | -- Howard "MadDog" Dickins | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
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