From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 30 15:16:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11687 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 15:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11667 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 15:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from batie@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA12753; Fri, 30 May 1997 15:15:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Batie Message-Id: <199705302215.PAA12753@agora.rdrop.com> Subject: Re: stopping mailspam without tears... To: jdfalk@cybernothing.org (J.D. Falk) Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: phk@dk.tfs.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970530173150.45564@cybernothing.org> from "J.D. Falk" at May 30, 97 05:31:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Rumour has it that Eric Allman is planning to include some > anti-spam hacks in the next distribution; for those who are > impatient, most of 'em are already available at various > sites linked from http://spam.abuse.net/. I'm using those and my sendmail is happily rejecting 20-40K messages/day; not all by any means, but it stops me from being a relay and also stops a lot of the worst scam junk (they tend to use invalid domains, which the filters check for). -- Alan Batie ______ It's not my fault! It's some guy batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / named "General Protection"! +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Ratbert PGP FP: DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 \/ 7A 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.