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From: Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:11:50 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0AE08E15-B397-4731-96D1-B83388C5CCEC@kix.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2377bb385e4e6bc8d0a133771b9a6741@quanstro.net>

On 13-May-08, at 4:17 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> what's a better idea.  having an extra 6400 spam emails
> is the problem.  how to i solve this without using spamhaus?

I use Greylisting [1], and it's been really effective. No false
positives (so far), and 0 to 2 spam messages a day. All this for a
mild ~15 minute delay on genuine emails (but only for the first time).

--
Anant

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 19:19 [9fans] upas/fs rfc 2047 encoding erik quanstrom
2008-05-12 20:36 ` [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus Charles Forsyth
2008-05-12 20:39   ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-12 22:34     ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-12 22:47       ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13 17:41         ` Anant Narayanan [this message]
2008-05-13 17:54           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-12 23:35       ` Armando Camarero
2008-05-12 23:54         ` a
2008-05-13  0:20           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13  4:11       ` Jason Gurtz
2008-05-13  8:58         ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-13 12:01           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13 13:23             ` a
2008-05-13 14:57           ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-05-12 23:53   ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13 17:22     ` Russ Cox
2008-05-13 17:31       ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13 19:52         ` Russ Cox
2008-05-13 20:07           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-14  0:44             ` Russ Cox
2008-05-14  2:39             ` Nate S
2008-05-14 22:13 erik quanstrom
2008-05-14 23:22 ` Russ Cox

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