Spam-Filter-Free Options (Was: Computer repair shop)

[Coleman Kane]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:13 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:50 PM,  <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
> >  Maybe spam prevention (much like virus prevention) is more about not
> >  making yourself a target, than it is about defending yourself against
> >  those who target you.
> 
>   Running a business means you have to make yourself accessible.
> 
> -- Ben

The same is true with being active in opensource projects. I get loads
of spam per day, but my system usually is able to pare these down to
about 10 or so that actually end up in my mailbox.

Such is the plight of an @FreeBSD.org, @openoffice.org, and
participating on the bug-tracking and mailing lists for those and other
projects.

I'm using SpamAssassin with as many of the add-on modules as I could
find in Gentoo to plug into it. I also ended up forwarding it through my
office's MX-relay last week, and this has resulted in better
spam-catching (to the point where the only spams that make it through
unedited are the smaller "note-like" emails, rarely). I think both of
these end up using similar, but differently-populated, bayesian
classifiers which seems more effective. Additionally, I've got some of
the OCR plugins (for those spams that are images), and all of the public
database lookups (Razor, Pyzor, DNSRBL, RBL, DCC, and more).

Running two mailservers in serial like this might be a helpful thing for
the person who's getting spammed to death. Make sure you get powerful
(and more than one) CPUs though.

-- 
Coleman Kane
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