On 2005-11-26, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/26/05, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> I DON'T use the address, but apparently addresses from this list have >> been picked up and therefore most of us are getting SPAMMED with this junk! >> 'Course, those of us who use Linux don't have to worry about it. ;)
> Linux prevents SPAM? I use Linux. Tell me how that works. What's the bash > command to prevent SPAM. He didn't say linux prevents spam, just that linux users don't have to worry about the viruses that come with the spam. > I'm sure OpenOffice.org's mail servers use Linux - so why are they getting > hit with a virus storm? It's a bandwidth issue. The high number of spurious messages makes it more difficult to process the legitimate messages. > Linux doesn't solve all ills. Sorry to break the news to you. No, but thanks to spamassassin I haven't noticed any increase in the spam that gets to my inbox (still only about half a dozen messages a week), but a couple hundred messeges have been dumped since the log file was last rotated (20 Nov.): [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ grep dev/null -c nfs/.procmail/procmail.log 217 Of those, almost 140 had some sort of virus attached: [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ grep -i virus -c nfs/.procmail/procmail.log 138 This still isn't significantly different from the week before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ zgrep dev/null -c nfs/.procmail/procmail.log.1.gz 240 [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ zgrep -i virus -c nfs/.procmail/procmail.log.1.gz 156 So, at least here I can't claim to have seen much effect from the latest MS mail exploit. -- John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
