AW: Crack Warez Links,,Anonymous Posting Kit,,New--Anon ymousMAIL BOMB
I'm starting to read the newsgroups myself, as there are posts getting
there now that aren't hitting the lists, and, consequently,
just getting
dead air ... not many, mind you, but still, its one more user
that MySQL
isn't getting :)Quite frankly, one spam coming in out how *how many* proper posts,
especially with the news<->mail gateway in place, isn't too
bad ... now
just have to figure out how that one got through :(
For me the problem is not spam that comes to the list, since that is indeed
not so much, but since the feed started I need a private spam filter,
which I did not need before.
With a simple pop account is there a way to avoid downloading the spam
over my slow modem line ? That is, make it bounce from the pop server ?
How do you guys avoid private spam ?
Andreas
As usual when replying from here, replies prefixed with PM:
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Maidstone Borough Council
Any views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.
-----Original Message-----
From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB [mailto:ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 9:44 AM
To: 'The Hermit Hacker'
Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'
Subject: AW: [HACKERS] Crack Warez Links,,Anonymous Posting
Kit,,New--Anon ymousMAIL BOMB
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For me the problem is not spam that comes to the list, since that is
indeed
not so much, but since the feed started I need a private spam filter,
which I did not need before.
PM: The amount of spam I'm now seeing has increased since the feed
started as well.
With a simple pop account is there a way to avoid downloading the spam
over my slow modem line ? That is, make it bounce from the pop server ?
How do you guys avoid private spam ?
PM: Unfortunately I don't use POP, but I do know of a few mail clients
that allows you to select what you download. There's one called Phoenix
mail which is supposed to be like Outlook Express has this feature (I've
not used it myself however).
Andreas
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:
With a simple pop account is there a way to avoid downloading the spam
over my slow modem line ? That is, make it bounce from the pop server ?
How do you guys avoid private spam ?
I control my own domain and since there are no customers on michvhf.com
I make sure anyone who connects to my SMTP port has working reverse DNS,
I have a long list of domains that spam regularly, another list of IP
blocks that have been spamming and I use MAPS. According to the logs,
all of these are turning around more than 100 spams a day - and I still
get (on some days) 50-100 more that actually get around all of that. I
also use some disposable email addresses so I can see where the address
was culled from and drop the address when it happens. Not very successful
tho - I guess I can only call it 50% at times.
Vince.
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