I have to say I installed ASSP about 3 weeks ago and I've noticed that it has caught 99% of my spam, works great, even blocked my mother and my student loan bill :)
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Randall Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:20:34 -0600 > >Take a look at ASSP (http://assp.sourceforge.net). After training, it cut >our spam down tremendously. I still block a lot of APNIC space as well as >some selected networks in other parts of the world, but ASSP has been the >best spam filter I've yet seen. > >There is another program in development that looks very interesting called >TarProxy (http://www.martiansoftware.com). > >Getting angry at mail admins is a waste of time and doesn't solve the >problem. > >Randall Scott > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bud Durland >Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:50 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Blocking spam > > >Jason wrote: > >>I would be angry also, but the question then becomes: Who should I be >>angry with?. >> >>The theory here is that if you have a spammer hitting you from a class C >>and the offending addresses span the class C as this one did (.250, .9), >>then should I be mad at the mail admins that are sick and tired of >>scanning provider subnets for spammers, or should I be mad at the >>subscriber network that does almost nothing to stop the epidemic of >>spam? >> >> >> > >Unless I mis-understood (wouldn't be the first time!) Len's message, >after getting spam from 207.218.67.9, what he did was search his logs >for any other spam from the same class C range. After finding others >there, the entire class C was blocked, without further research that all >the hits were the same offender. In this particular case, the risk of a >false positive is fairly small since the spam hits cover pretty much the >entire range of the Class C. But, if a mail admin blocked >12.107.134.0/24 because he didn't do enough research to see that the >sources were in 12.107.134.0/25, my mail server would be a collateral >casualty. > >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >The problem with the gene pool is there are no lifeguards >-Steven Wright >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Bud Durland, CNE Mold-Rite Plastics >Network Administrator http://www.mrpcap.com >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus / Sophos AV] > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
