Personally, I'd like to avoid the blackhole lists. Reason being, it's very easy to get unfairly placed on their list - perfect example was the VerizonMail.com? domain. I'd like to avoid as much spam as possible, but still take as much care to ensure that real users (ie, non-scumbags) can reach me. The moment that I have to tell a friend, business associate, or potential customer that their email couldn't reach me because my spam filter "caught" them, is the moment that I've gone too far.
One liner to prevent 100% of spam: *@*.* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 2:54 PM Subject: Re: OT: SPAM lists? > >I was looking at automating my server-side SPAM filtering. Are there > >any resources for pulling known SPAM addresses? Free, as in beer? > > We run an SMTP anti-abuse gateway, and subcribe it to selected RBL servers, > do DNS validations, enforce SMTP protocol compliance, regex filters on > headers, bodies, attachments. This kills 90% of spam, and a bunch of > worms, virii, too without costing anything. > > A couple of new ones that look promising are spamassassin.taint.org and > tmda.sourceforge.net. > > Another one combines the MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a lookup of the > owner of the sending mailserver's ip. If you say [EMAIL PROTECTED] and your > mailserver is not an AOL ip, click. > > Len > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
