Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away
GWMobile
geopilot at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 27 13:59:24 CET 2007
Just don} worry about spam so much.
It has rarely been a problem on this or mos t groups and fighting it
isn't worth the inconvience.
It just isn't a problem.
I find it far easier simply to scroll past the occasionally bit of spam
that deal with the "solutions" that make me jump through hoops just to
post a message.
The solutions are much worse than the problem.
Just don't worry about it.
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:17 am, Thomas Szukala wrote:
> Harish Pillay wrote:
>> May I make a suggestion to whoever is running this mailing list to add
>> the greylist technique to it as well? I have had milter-greylist
>> running on
>> my main email servers for over 12 months now, and the amount of spam
>> reaching my users/mailing lists has gone down to almost zero.
>>
> I know greylisting works and is stopping spam very effective (for now).
> However this behaviour puts high volume mailservers in a lot of stress.
> Also I am experiencing, that spammers are adapting to greylisting and
> are connecting multiple times to mailservers. Supposedly in order to
> pass greylisting.
> Thus, the administrators of these high volume mailservers have to get
> rid of several thousands incoming connections per minute from a single
> spammer (think of a botnet DDoS you) and delayed outgoing connections
> for your customers.
> You therefore have a higher deferr rate outgoing (doubling outgoing
> connections) and therefore have a bigger mailqueue, additionally you
> have more incoming connections (spam) blocking your available TCP ports
> permanently only for the cause to reject them.
>
> So my advice would be to not use greylisting, as it pushes the problem
> to other parts of the internet and is effective only for a limited time
> (if anyone is using it).
>
> My thought is, that it would be much more effective to block
> subscription by sophisticated captchas (take care of XSS
> vulnerabilities ) . Also it might be effective to block subscriptions
> by using lists of compromised hosts like CBL
> (<http://cbl.abuseat.org>).
> Try to identify which IPs are causing trouble and do match them with
> several blacklists. The lists do not always work in the same way as it
> does for others. Sometimes also only a mix of several lists are
> working. <http://karmasphere.com/> might help you there.
>
> If you dont have enough samples, be conservative. It is more a hassle
> to gain legitimate listmembers back, who you have been lost during
> subscription, as blocking fake accounts afterwards.
>
> Have an eye on your subscriptions. Too many new listmembers is
> certainly not a cause of marketing.
>
> I might have come a little off topic, but perhaps it helps someone.
>
> I am now getting back to my cookies, ice cream, cake and teas ;-)
>
> Cheers Thomas
>
>
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