I have couple of customers using something like that now but I had to tell them to turn off the bounce message because since 99.9 percent of the addresses are fake they were clogging up my spool directory. We've actually cut spam at least 60 percent using Imail's rules but these guys get korean porno spam that english rules don't work too well on. Of course they both claim they have never visited the sites.
David Daniels System Administrator Starfish Internet Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Mail Control > > >Here's a little fuzzy logic.. To control Spam wouldn't be easier to just > >reject all mail then add the known 'clean' email servers? Just a thought > >with a sidebar of humor. :-) > > That's EXACTLY the desktop approach taken by TMDA, tagged message delivery > agent. The desktop user must whitelist every single sender or domain, else > rejected. ie, "100% moderated" mail reception. > > Meta Group doesn't seem to get out and about very much, claiming SPAM > levels of just 10%. > > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/25/020625hntoolsspam.xml?0626 weam > > ime, the IMGate machines I install and admin get between 20% and 50% reject > rates. > > Len > > > www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training > BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K > IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
