From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 24 23: 7: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CCB37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D35443F85 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au) Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41]) by ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1P6Va3J010530 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:31:41 +1100 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: JacobRhoden Organization: University of Melbourne To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I'm blocking Yahoo! Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:31:36 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <20030219022940.GC17256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200302240902.50478.wes@softweyr.com> <20030225055735.GD21727@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030225055735.GD21727@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302251731.36435.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday 25 February 2003 16:57, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > You're missing the point. This message was send by Yahoo!, not an > anonymous spammer. I recieved the exact same spam emails that you did. My very very simple p= erl=20 script spam filter managed to block both of them without blocking all yah= oo=20 addresses. Why block domains when most spam can be blocked with=20 keywords/baysian filters? While were on the subject, it may be a commonly asked question, im not su= re,=20 but is there not some server side filtering of spam from freebsd, it=20 currently makes up 10% of all my spam recieved? (My conservative filters = at=20 this end manage to catch most of the freebsd spam with no false positives= ). I=20 should think it would save some cpu cycles and bandwidth to filter? - jacob Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message