[PLUG] spam and white lists

[Ed Sawicki]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 19:03, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> 
> > I block spam for a number of my customers. There's been a
> > sharp increase in spam coming from large ISPs such as
> > comcast.com and rr.com. One customer now wants to block all
> > e-mail from any Comcast or Road Runner e-mail address or
> > IP address. They'll accept mail from these places with their
> > white list.
> 
> There are ways to classify (and filter) spam that are about as effective
> as simple whietlists, but are much more flexible and involve much less
> fiddling.  And keep in mind that the From: address is generally faked,
> often with domain names and addresses that belong to legitimate users.

We're talking about a large volume of mail. One goal is to
turn away the spammers before they consume our bandwidth.
Techniques that require us to receive the message before we
decide that they're spam are not acceptable.



> Try SpamAssassin.
> 
> 
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