Smeg Off Spammers

in the early evening on Sunday, the 25th of May 2003 by Chad

I hate spam. Duh… so does just about everyone else. On the mail server I run the rules are extremely tight. Just today 110 out of 175 messages are either outright rejected or tagged as spam by SpamAssassin. I run a really tight set of rules on Postfix, blocking misconfigured mail servers, running against black-hole lists, checking against sets of spam regex’s. The only rule I had to turn off was blocking mail that reverse DNS against a DSL address. And that was 99% effective, I just had a friend running his mail server on his DSL line.

Still, with all that, I still get about 1/3rd spam in my mail. Looks like the Gummint now wants in on spam regulation… I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not. Somehow I doubt it. I just can’t see it being a good thing.

Wonder if it will do any good at all.