At 02:57 PM 3/11/2002 -0500, Ed Robbins wrote:
>Has anyone given a talk on Spam control? I've been fighting it for several
>months now and I'm finally making some headway. Of course, I run my own mail
>server so I have a lot more control over what I can do. I started with
>access databases within sendmail and kept spam domains and email address into
>it. After two months I'm up to over 1000 entries. I've just started using
>dnsbl and it's great. I'm also looking to add/write a Milter, for sendmail,
>to allow me to filter on subjects and either mark or discard them. As
>frustrating as it has been, it's been a great learning experience.
>
>To give you an example of some numbers, my server is used by myself and maybe
>7 or 8 other people. Last week, I caught 205 spam messages and trashed them.
> Given that I'm filtering about 1000 messages a month. Keep in mind this is
>just filtering based on entries I reap from my personal email, if I had the
>other 7 or 8 feed me address and domains I'm sure I would catch a
>significantly higher amount.
>
You may want to contact Eric Johansson at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric is local and his knowledge is very high quality.
Eric is co-leading an open source project which if successful could
create a grassroots type of change to the email environment on
the internet.
Project nutshell: The project will create plug-ins for the existing
mail packages that will automate the creation of "hashcash-like"
electronic email stamps. No real money is involved but the expense
of creating these valid "stamps" should prove to be a barrier to
most spamming.
Project name : CamRam - "Campaign for Real MAil"
(a play on a British beer ad campaign for "Real Ale")
Website : www.camram.org
Status : Design complete, protoyping beginning
(probably in perl and python)
>From: "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I also have an open source project help wanted request. I need folks who
>can help me implement an antispam system. see http://www.camram.org
>
>--- eric
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