Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:44:58 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.] Message-ID: <20021121214458.GB20447@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021121140056.GA30746@kierun.org> References: <20021121031809.GA77831@tao.thought.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10211210844210.23313-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> <20021121135803.GB11980@gothmog.gr> <20021121140056.GA30746@kierun.org>
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:00:56PM +0000, Yann Golanski wrote:
> Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200
> > This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I
> > mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred
> > messages for each spam message they let through they will certainly
> > start acting fast >:-)
>
> Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something
> like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us?
The FreeBSD mail server ALREADY does a huge amount of spam filtering.
You're only seeing less than 1% of the spam that comes in. The mail
server rejects about one spam *per second* to freebsd mailing lists.
Kris
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