On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:02:17PM -0400, Doug Friend wrote: > > One approach we've been mulling over is using a separate email address > @register4less.com, one per account, for each client. Email that would be sent > to the clients can then be run through a junk filter. > > Downside of course is the potential bandwidth & machine resources of this.
Granted, we're pretty small (less than 500 domains registered I think, with only maybe 50 using our variation on this theme), but the traffic is really minimal. At a very rough estimate, I'd have to guess that we see less than one message a week go through the filter, per registrant. 99% of it is spam that can be detected by looking for repeated spaces in the subject line or other simple regexps on the header. If this pattern scales, then providing such forwarding service even for tens of thousands of domains could be done on the lowliest throw-away PC, or without affecting load on your existing mail server. > We're started using X-Spam for filtering, and it's pretty good. Of course > something like this would be opt in. This would also more clearly identify to > the registrant when they get mail if it's from their whois listing. I put together http://www.it.ca/software/procmail-spamtrap which seems to do a good job of catching the crap. Lighter load than SpamAssassin, -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever +1 416 598-0000 it.canada - hosting and development http://www.it.ca/
