On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John <j...@starfire.mn.org> writes: > > John> (Obviously, I'll want to add to my cron scripts to age entries out > John> of the spammers table, just to keep it down to a manageable size. > John> I already have two dozen entries.) > > You'll have a lot of collateral damage. I've worked with a lot of > schemes over the years for spamfighting. A lot of spam is sourced > inside corporate or educational choke points, meaning that a spam > message from inside a company would block all remaining mail from that > company. So, for this to work, you really need to time out your blocks > no more than an hour or two later, or legit mail will get unnecessarily > delayed.
Grr. I just expired the first address, at four hours old, and IMMEDIATELY got a bunch Pfizer spams that were just delayed... This is certainly not an easy nut to crack. -- John Lind j...@starfire.mn.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
