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From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To: randy // fBSD <freebsd@randys.org>
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Subject: Re: SPAM? (was Re: Antisniffer measures (digest of posts))
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randy // fBSD (freebsd@randys.org) wrote:
> What I hate is that these messages are posted to a newsgroup WITH our email
> addresses...I have been getting spam left and right because of it.

With a properly tweaked MTA checking against a few MAPS servers, I get
only 1-2 messages a day. 

Ahh, the satisfaction of seeing this is /var/log/maillog:

Jan 18 00:06:19 kraeusen postfix/smtpd[42430]: reject: RCPT from unknown[210.71.181.94]: 554 Service unavailable; [210.71.181.94] blocked using relays.mail-abuse.org; from=<angela36@tantriks.com> to=<evan@nbrewer.com>
Jan 18 00:08:43 kraeusen postfix/smtpd[42430]: reject: RCPT from gateway.bompani.it[194.185.171.193]: 450 <jacksonjim@btclickfree.co.uk>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<jacksonjim@btclickfree.co.uk> to=<anna@nbrewer.com>
Jan 18 00:09:41 kraeusen postfix/smtpd[42430]: reject: RCPT from small-1.inet.it[194.20.8.3]: 450 <sgtschultz@comundo.lycos.de>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<sgtschultz@comundo.lycos.de> to=<jdavis@nbrewer.com>

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Christopher Farley
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