[SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Phil Manuel
Hi, Does anyone have any experience in using postgrey and fairUCE together ? Would this combination be better than a challenge/response system like http://www.totalblock.net/ ? Thanks Phil. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Phil Manuel wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any experience in using postgrey and fairUCE together ? Would this combination be better than a challenge/response system like http://www.totalblock.net/ ? I don't know what postgrey, fairUCE or http://www.totalblock.net/ are, but they would have

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Penedo
On 14/11/06, Phil Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any experience in using postgrey and fairUCE together ? Would this combination be better than a challenge/response system like http://www.totalblock.net/ ? From reading the first few lines describing what postgrey does

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:34:40PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...and you trust Google not to sell the email addresses of those with whom you correspond?... I certainly do, at least, I trust them slightly more than the average ISP. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Penedo
On 14/11/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and you trust Google not to sell the email addresses of those with whom you correspond?... *clink* (That was the sound of yet another dollar going into Google's pockets for having your address in their spam pool. Thanks for your

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Adam Kennedy
From reading the first few lines describing what postgrey does (reject connections and hoping that spammers won't retry) then it sounds like a doomed tactic since I've just read (on Security Fix? not sure) that spammers got over this silly hurdle and now will retry, causing even more traffic

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Adam Kennedy wrote: It's only a matter of time till the image spam is sophisticated enough to existing OCR software, even fuzzy OCR, is going to start getting in trouble. Exactly. If the spammers can't get around Captchas[1], then our software likely won't be