Re: Spam control? (was RE: virus)

2012-11-13 Thread Eric Shubert
If spam is the problem, a better mail server can be the solution. Running your own mail server isn't nearly as complicated as it used to be. QmailToaster (http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com) with spamdyke is a very good combination. Spamdyke rejects 90+% of spam without even receiving (or scanning)

Re: Spam control? (was RE: virus)

2012-11-09 Thread Stephen
Rusty, how did tarpit and that delay time effect non spam users? On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: Some time back I thought the best solution would be to form a co-op. Members of the co-op would run some sort of program to detect spammers,

RE: Spam control? (was RE: virus)

2012-11-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
As I remember (but remember whose memory we are talking about :-) - I had 3 lists - those known to be spammers, those known to be ok, and anybody else. (Ok, so the 'anybody else' wasn't actually a LIST, it was anybody not in the first 2 lists) Known spammers got some huge delay (I think I

Re: Spam control? (was RE: virus)

2012-11-09 Thread Derek Trotter
I don't remember the url, but a few years ago I found a site that had an interesting idea to fight those who try to con people into handing over account information. If you got one of these scam emaills, you would submit the url the phishers included. Their system would generate random