[PLUG] [Fwd: Verify plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org for dduncan at hexi.com]

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.

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 .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca>
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`. `'`     proud Debian admin and user
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