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

[Dancer Vesperman]

I'm considering trying it out. I need to find a little time to test it.


On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 22:50, Andrea Landaker wrote:
> > 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.
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Dancer Vesperman <dancer.vesperman at abxlogistics.com.au>
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