On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 10:25 AM, Global Homes Webmaster wrote:
> On 09/03/02 at 08:24, James Strickland wrote: > <snip> > I have hundreds of IP addresses blacklisted, but since many spammers >> use mutliple servers it is a nearly impossible task to make a dent in >> the amount of spam received using that method. I also subscribe to >> three different blacklists. Unfortunately, I have only seen a small >> drop in spam with these blacklists, but I have had quite a few >> clients and vendors blocked. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > What blacklists do you use? I've found the Osirusoft list (all > sub-lists > except for SPEWS and Smart Hosts), supplemented by ORDB, > korea.services.net, along with my internal list based on spam that I > and my > users have received, to be a pretty good combination for my situation. > They > at least keep the spam down to a dull roar with little or no collateral > damage. > > Of course, some spam is always going to get through no matter how > closely > guarded your mail server is, because blacklists and other anti-spam > measures are necessarily reactive. They guard against where the > spammers > are known to be and techniques that they are known to use. As the > spammers > move from network to network and find ways to get around anti-spam > defenses, they're always going to be a step ahead. > In my RBL server list I have: relays.osirusoft.com "Please see http://relays.osirusoft.com/"; korea.services.net "Please see http://korea.services.net/"; And in my Blacklisted server list I have: 127.0.0.2 ; orisoft verified open relay 127.0.0.3 ; orisoft dialup line Between these, I seem to block about 90% of the spam with, as best I can tell so far, no collateral damage. That still lets a lot through. I am now training the spam detector in Jaguar's Mail.app and it is getting pretty good at detecting the remaining spam. I have hopes that the techniques used by mail app (which I believe are similar to those described at <http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html> ) will make a significant dent in spammer's success rates. I am almost tempted to turn off the RBL lookup in SIMS just to give Mail.app more data to train with. Unfortunately, I am the only one using OS 10.2 and turning off the RBLs will really hurt the other users of the system. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
