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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:28:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      mark jeff || vic <markjr@shmooze.net>
To:        kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: All about SPAM (again)...
Message-ID:  <199802241528.KAA23635@shmooze.net>
In-Reply-To: <34EA122A.900DC69B@tdx.co.uk> from "Karl Pielorz" at Feb 17, 98 10:41:46 pm

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> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I realise this really isn't the place to ask this - but I thought it was kind
> of relevant as we all seem to be getting hit by SPAM sent to this list as
> well...
> 

[questions snipped]

Because you're email address will appear in the web mail archives for
this mailing list, spammers can send out spiders to cull these pages
for email addy's. Same thing happens when you post anything to usenet.

I use a combination of sendmail antispam rules, and a filter I coded
myself. The former, which can be found at http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html
can be used to block known spam domains (my list was obtained from 
cybernothing.org -don't have the exact URL, but it has all cyberpromo
domains and others, so far about 900 of them) and also to prevent relaying.
The latter is my own spam filter which attempts to filter on context based
rules and works pretty good on whatever is left after the sendmail level
stuff, it's avail. at http://antispam.shmooze.net/filter/. 

regards, markjr

Mark Jeftovic		aka: mark jeff or vic, stunt pope. 
markjr@shmOOze.net	http://www.shmOOze.net/~markjr	
PWC's BOFH		http://www.PrivateWorld.com
IRC: L-bOMb		Keep `em Guessing

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