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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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 Posted - 23 January 2004 : 03:09:39
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/22/HNaolantispam_1.html
I wish someone would come up with something, SPAM is really getting out of hand.
One of my new duties at work is to go through the SPAM that our filtering software has flagged. I get to look at every message, anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 per night, to make sure legitimate ones haven't been filtered. Then if they have, I get to go through the logfile and see why it was filtered and then forward it on to the sender and all recipients explaining why it was filtered... |
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 23 January 2004 : 06:10:20
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| fun fun Richard. I'm getting complaints at work about all the SPAM as well. My problem is, I'm not allowed to implement a filter (at least right now). |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 23 January 2004 : 07:39:47
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I really don't envy you in the slightest Richard, that sounds like a real PITA job.
So far the best corporate defense I've seen is having any new email address verify themselves first by going to a webpage and keying in a number on the screen to verify they want the email forwarded to the recipient (this only happens the first time a person send an email to the particular domain). A bit of trouble for the sender, but seems to block most unwanted stuff pretty well |
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Jeepaholic
Average Member
USA
697 Posts |
Posted - 23 January 2004 : 12:45:45
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I sure hope someone comes out with a good protocol that sticks, and the Internet community embraces it. All these bandaids simply aren't doing the trick.
Richard, what spam algorithm(s) are you using? I'm currently running SPAMCOP and a China/Korea Block-All list...which used to do well, but seems to be letting more and more spam in. Regardless, it's blocking 25% of emails and I'm still getting spammed. I'm curious if you've had successful (no false positives) with other algorithms?
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Aholics.com
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
1318 Posts |
Posted - 23 January 2004 : 13:21:38
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| At work we have spamassassin implimented into a system running on two linux boxes. It seems to be working extremelly well. Not a lot of legit blocked messages and it blocks a ton of spam. |
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GregRadz
Starting Member
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Posted - 23 January 2004 : 15:15:42
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I have a very cheap solution that has scaled quite nicely. I started with one domain and a few emails addresses and now have about 350 email addresses on 6 domains.
Argosoft with Mail Filter Pro 3.0 and Paranoid Spam filter. I block a couple hundred messages per day and there are about 3-4 that get through. You have a probability level for the spam detection and at 70%, I block maybe 3-4 legit emails per month and fixing that issue is easy.
You can add and use all types of ban list includings MAPS and ORBS, SpamAssassin and more. You can also cutomize, with mail filter, what you are blocking, for example all .tz addresses.
www.argosoft.com www.sssolutions.com are the sites for these products.
Cheers
Greg
edit-isn't AOL still one of big sellers of usernames thus providing means for the very spammers they claims to hate? |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 24 January 2004 : 23:29:26
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| Corporate solution wise, cloudmarks we've found to be extremely reliable. http://www.cloudmark.com/ The personal version works well too though atm I'm running Spam Inspector which works fairly reliably as well. |
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Classicmotorcycling
Development Team Leader
Australia
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Posted - 24 January 2004 : 23:50:12
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The only problem with Cloudmark is they are now charging by the month or year.quote:
Originally posted by Gremlin
Corporate solution wise, cloudmarks we've found to be extremely reliable. http://www.cloudmark.com/ The personal version works well too though atm I'm running Spam Inspector which works fairly reliably as well.
Was a great product when it was free but.
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 25 January 2004 : 07:03:35
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| Still not horribly expensive though .. sooner or later even email will stop becoming a free service anyway largely becuase of all the added costs that spam adds. |
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radial
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 25 January 2004 : 19:50:33
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i work for a small ISP and we use ModusMail for the mail server, and it also does spam filtering. Very very good, and i'm not biased.
see www.vircom.com for more info on it
if you do like it and want to buy, reference www.vance.net! ;)
they'll even give you a free trial if i'm not mistaken
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taropatch
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 27 January 2004 : 12:23:59
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SPAM is a serious problem. I am pretty much doing the same thing Richard except that my company is small. I scan through about 200-500 filtered emails every day.
My email is about 85% SPAM. It's ridiculous.
I'm using SPAM filters at the server and then POPFile locally to help me sort incoming email. |
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redbrad0
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