[CLUE-Tech] Netscape email filters/rules for SPAM

[Kevin Cullis]

Jed,

Thanks for the tip and comments. My ISP has emailed everyone about SPAM
filters they are putting into place on the 20th, but until then, I was
wondering how I could reduce my workload. I'll wait and see how it works
after the 20th.

KC

"Jed S. Baer" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:20:00 -0700
> Kevin Cullis <kevincu at orci.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been inundated with SPAM these last few months and have stuggled
> >
> > Anyone have any others ideas that might help?
> 
> Is your ISP running MAPS/RBL filtering? How 'bout ORBZ filtering? I'd say
> talk to the support folks. They might be willing to add some/all of your
> spammers to their filtering.
> 
> The other thing to do is to complain about it, but to the right people.
> I've had some success with this, for example with X10.com; a few
> complaints to their ISP, they stopped spamming me. Another ISP I
> complained to was accidentally operating an open relay, and fixed it.
> 
> You can use things like whois queries and traceroute to find the
> legitimate ISPs and upstream providers. Just try to be certain you aren't
> complaining directly, or indirectly, to the spammer, because that only
> validates your addy in their database. That be tough to determine
> sometimes.
> 
> Bottom line is, it's better to get at the source, than filter it out on
> your end, if you can.
> 
> I haven't tried it, but I saw a package called Spam Assasin on freshmeat.
> Might be worth looking at.
> 
> Regards,
> jed
> 
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