I must be missing something, I often see 100's of SPAM coming from an IP. How is doing a DENYSOFT to only the first one going to help?
> On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 19:35 Europe/London, Devin Carraway wrote: > > > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:04:24PM +1000, Gavin Carr wrote: > >> A while ago Matt Sergeant mentioned he'd implemented a plugin that he > >> couldn't release that returned a denysoft on the first connection from > >> an IP address, on the theory that spammers don't queue, they just fire > > > > Hmm, that reminds me -- Matt, it's been a couple of months, how's it > > been working out for you? > > I turned it off because I wanted to be receiving my full quota of spam > (for statistical training and various other stats I use my spam for). I > guess I could have modified it to DENYSOFT after DATA and record the > full email somewhere anyway, but I took the easy option. > > Up to that point I would say it took out about 60% of my spam, and zero > false positives. > > Matt. >
