All, Since no item got more than a single vote, and since I had captured some useful/informative spam logs recently, I have chosen to present "Fighting Spam at the ISP Level" (as the advanced topic) at this week's meeting.
Sebastian: Are you presenting the basic topic? Brian Sebastian Smith wrote: > Brian, > > Excellent list! All are great topics. A lot of them are very broad in > scope though. Perhaps they would be better suited as in introductory > presentation to a long-running discussion -- I'm thinking GSA topics here. > > Anyway, I'd like to put my vote on topic 1. I think it'd be great to have > an introductory talk on the techniques for combating spam. Then, have an > open forum discussion of the ramifactions of the filtering techniques. > > Spam filtering is the next "big thing" on the tech horizon IMHO. Those > companies, ISPs, etc that haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet probably > have some anti-spam technology in their 2006 budgets. Addition of this > technology will/does affect the way we communicate -- business practices > will need to change. So... it's very important -- now the email is the > "killer application" -- that we all have an understanding of the new email > dataflow model. > > We'll keep the polls open though. So vote! I've no doubt spam will be on > the "discussion platter" within the next few months regardless of the > results. > > - Sebastian > > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Brian Morris wrote: > > > Sebastian, > > I could present one. Pick one from this list, if you like (the topics > would be presented from a fully Linux-centric point of view): > > 1) Fighting spam at the server/ISP level (Sendmail-intensive) > 2) Post-instrusion tracing/investigation > 3) Social engineering (and how to not be a victim of it) > 4) The birth & death of a TCP packet/stream > 5) Advanced syslog control > 6) Network and physical attack vectors > 7) How telephony works > 8) Intro to BGP & OSPF > > Brian > > Sebastian Smith wrote: > >>We have a beginner-level topic for next month. I'm not sure of the >>official title, but it is an introduction to the Vi/Vim editors. If you >>don't use Vi/Vim you should attend the meeting because they are fantastic >>-- especially for coding. > >>Would anyone like present an advanced-level topic? > >>- Sebastian > > > >>_______________________________________________ >>RLUG mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
