What I do with my mail server is to filter out all known "opt-in" mailing list companies, not just their host name, but their net-block! If the mail server doesn't have such options, try the router level, firewalls or ACLs... Also adopted recently is the use of ORBZ, though sometimes legitimate message gets rejected.
On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 07:55 PM, Sasha Pachev wrote: > Hello, everybody: > > I have updated the filter on this list again to adjust for the new kind > of > spam we've been getting. Two things I've changed are: > > * fixed bug that did not ban attachments if Multipart was captilized - > this > should stop the naver.com flood > * reduced the good words list to query and sql - table was a bad > substring > because there are too many words in English that end in table, and some > spammers try to sell some kind of a database. > > So let's see if that helps. > > Please be patient with us. We will not be able to do any fundamental > changes > to the list handling since currently the only person that can do it > without > some initial training is myself, and my main focus is replication. We > are > currently considering several alternatives to solving our list > maitenance > problem - as I am writing this message, the release of 4.0.2 is being > delayed > because nobody is fixing my bugs in the mean time, and there is no way > it is > going out the way it is now - with the bugs it has it is not usable for > practical purposes at this point. So I'd better stop babbling and get > back to > work... > > -- > MySQL Development Team > For technical support contracts, visit https://order.mysql.com/ > __ ___ ___ ____ __ > / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Sasha Pachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, http://www.mysql.com/ > /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Provo, Utah, USA > <___/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <mysql-unsubscribe- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
