18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
5:53 a.m.
On Monday, October 18, 2010, Christian Corti wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
That's not the entire problem. Part of it is people [spammers]
subscribing to the list to try to harvest email addresses from the mail
sent out by the list. How is spamassassin going to help with that?
Pat
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From what Jay has told me, the spammers applying
to the list is
what locked it down in the first place and he's unable to keep up
with the number of sub requests. Essentially, legitimate users
are being drowned out by the volume of spammers trying to
subscribe to the list.
That's nonsense, since there are free and very good solutions against
spam since many years now. If you run your site with Postfix
configured to reject mails from unresolvable and inexistant client
and from addresses, this will bring down your spam volume to about
the half. And then add SpamAssassin to scan the other mails, you can
practically forget the spam issue. Just add ClamAV, and you don't
even have to bother about viruses. You would be surprised. I've
never undestood why site maintainers complain about these issues
despite the available means to fight against them.