Re: PLUG: PMAS

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
In article <1378bo75v2pl6a1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Daniel
<mark.daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:


And I thought the SPAM load was moderating (silly me).

Looking for a specific e-mail I thought I should have received, I just opened my PreciseMail Anti-SPAM quarrantined messages page to search for it (without success). I don't do this often and haven't for a while (obviously not since the last upgrade). Towards the top of the 2,967,263 byte report page is a (new to me) item "(Messages: 4605)". That's four and one half thousand quarrantined SPAM in the past 14 days! This is something like 328 per day!!


That seems about average. I've resorted to using ZEN.SPAMHAUS.ORG as an RBL. That gets rid of the lion's share.

There has often been discussion in this forum regarding the use of such black-lists by TCP/IP Services.

Only being an end-user of this product I'm not familiar with the mechanisms by which it operates (though I believe I remember someone saying the principles were based on SpamAssassin) and whether it uses RBLs.

these, I see in my mail perhaps five more per day, and most of those only because they match some fairly liberal entries in my allow list. Obviously without some filter of this sort having a well-known e-mail address would be completely unmanageable.
In the old days, addresses were harvested from usenet, web pages etc,
and keeping them secret, or at least not posting them in plain text, did
have a very noticeable effect. These days, addresses are collected by viruses on PCs, so if anyone has your address in some PC address book, then the spammers have it. Also, dictionary attacks are popular; they

Early-on I decided not to bother obfuscating my address on the basis that it only needs to leak the once into a public place. Of course you underscore that now it only has to leak from a private place.

get everything, but a long address might cut down spam. Here are just

How so?

the latest on my cluster:

check_user: User xnwvcqvf is apparently a username but has no account: FAIL

check_user: User antalyaivr is apparently a username but has no account: FAIL


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