[Volunteers] Re: [Techtalk] Linuxchix using SPEWS?

[Andrea Landaker]

> Yes. Most of the time when the lists are So Slow People Complain, it's
> because of processing spam mail.
>
> Anything which shortens the spam-rejecting or spam-dropping time enables
> us to run Linuxchix - without it, we wouldn't be able to. :(

I don't know if you've considered greylisting 
(http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html) instead of 
blacklisting, but when we implemented it on our mail server, spam dropped 
from about 2000/day to 5/day (we only have about 5 users), and we haven't had 
any valid mail be undelivered.  It would cause a short post delay for people 
who have never posted before, but after the first post there would be no 
delay.  May be worth considering.

Thanks for the answers.

-- 
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/