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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
Wed Sep 3 04:14:04 UTC 2003
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:59:14AM -0700, Russ Johnson wrote:
> We deal with it, because the alternative is we are overrun with junk
> email. If I wasn't blocking mail, then my signal to noise ratio would be
> near 2:10. 2 legitimate emails for every 10 emails received. I kid you
> not. Fully 40% or better is rejected by postfix, and then 70% of what
> gets delivered to me is still junk. I had a personal best the other day
> of 77% of mail was rejected by postfix. That's BEFORE spamassassin got a
> hold of it. Spam sucks, and I'll do many things to reduce it to a
> managable level. That doesn't include a C/R system yet, but I'm close..
> Real close.
I was there once. Make yourself a hostile target and report
spammers. I got my users to report spam themselves (and if they're
lazy, forwarding me their spam), my site is a pretty hostile target.
Spammers learn, though slowly.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca>
: :' :
`. `'` proud Debian admin and user
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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