[Techtalk] Linuxchix using SPEWS?

[Robert Wichert]

I have also instituted RBL rejection on my domains due to the volume of
Spam.  I also refuse to accept mis-addressed mail.  default|/dev/null is
the way to go.

The servers just can't take the volume otherwise.


Robert



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Mary wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004, Andrea Landaker wrote:
> > I'm not sure what list this should go to (or should it just go to an
> > admin?  I couldn't find contact information on the website . . .), so
> > please feel free to move it if I'm off track.
> 
> The right place to send it would be volunteers@ I think. Volunteers,
> Andrea's original message is at
> http://linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2004-August/018919.html
> 
> > Is it possible to change this behavior of the Linuxchix lists?  Since the
> > lists are for subscribers-only (essentially a whitelist), is blacklisting
> > necessary?  I ask these honestly -- if there really is a reason for an RBL,
> > and SPEWs really is the best one for the job, then that's fine, but my
> > experience denotes otherwise.
> 
> I think the blacklisting reduces processing time on a lot of spam.
> 
> Instead of this:
> 
>  - accept mail
>  - put mail in queue
>  - deliver mail to mailing list
>  - mailing list notices that it is from unsubbed address
>  - moderator looks at mail
>  - moderator discards mail
> 
> it does this:
> 
>   - reject mail
> 
> I think the LinuxChix servers have upon occasion been nearly crippled
> just by the volume of spam people try and send to it[1] so this processing
> time does matter. But that doesn't mean that it isn't worth raising the
> issue on volunteers.
> 
> -Mary
> 
> [1] I don't know the LinuxChix percentages, but debian.org reports that
> something like 98% of all mail it processes is now spam. And debian.org
> gets a *lot* of legit mail, so you can imagine the size of the spam.
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