[Cialug] F'n Opt-in Spammers

[Aaron Porter]

On 12/9/05, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
>
> That's a little too strong of an analogy but point taken.  I should be
> doing as much as I can to prevent spam from even hitting the mailbox but
> once there TMDA works well.  And while TMDA generates more outbound mail
> destined for non-existent mail servers...it is effective.


I used to get between 9 and 11 thousand spams per day. Every day.
SpamAssassin would catch 98 or 99%, leaving well over a hundred in my inbox.
Life sucked. Then I started greylisting and life got a lot better. My
inbound spams are down under 1000 per day, spamc/spamd no longer consume 95%
of my cpu time and I rarely get more than 1 or 2 UCE messages in a day in my
inbox. What I get now is a flood of TMDA/Earthlink/etc challenges when
j.random spammer decides to forge their sending address from one of my
domains. Seems to happen every other week or so, a few hundred at a time.
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