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Date:      Thu, 26 May 2005 01:50:16 +0930
From:      Wayne Sierke <ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Killing spam on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <1117038016.712.19.camel@au.dyndns.ws>
In-Reply-To: <200407131050.48042.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <200407131050.48042.kirk@strauser.com>

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Kirk,

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:50 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I recently started rejecting about 99.9% of incoming spam *without* using 
> challenge-response or other load-increasing methods.  For details, read:
> 
>     http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/FilterMailWithPostFix
> 
> In a nutshell, before implementing this plan, I was receiving about 600 
> emails and 50 spams per day.  Afterward, I'm receiving about 600 emails and 
> 1 spam (yes, one) per day.  In other words, I don't seem to be having any 
> false positives at all.

Just curious - do you still find this to be an effective solution, or
have you had to adapt or abandon it?


Thanks,

Wayne





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