[Glastonbury] Mandrake 9.2

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:42:54PM +0000, peter wrote:
> Well i have just come back off of Holiday and the Dec issue of LXF
> dropped through the door this morning so i updated my laptop 3.5 hours
> later!!! it was updated I have not had much of a chance to look at it
> yet but will keep you posted.
> 
> I am up for my laptop to be used for a kernel update at a meeting. So
> it's there to play with.
> 
> If like me every one is getting fed up with spam, after 10 days of not
> checking emails i had 920 of which 30 were ones i wanted to get . I am
> running a filters on Ximian Evolution, this got the mail down to 220 but
> is still had to down load them all. I know their are filters for Linux
> could we have a meeting on setting them up ? in a server situation and a
> stand alone machine. Any way of checking before downloading from the pop
> server ?  Could this be integrated in to a meeting 
> -- 
> peter <colep at nascr.net>
> 
Once they've hit your machine, it's too late :(  Pester your ISP to get
really tough on spam mail: get them to run SpamAssassin or 
the equivalent corporately and to clobber any spammers within their 
remit.  Get them to deny peering to spamming ISP's. You can run SA 
yourself and filter accordingly so that you don't need to see the spam - 
but you've still had to download it.  Probably, not many of us run our own 
standalone email server which sends real SMTP to the 'Net in its own 
right - ISP's don't care for it in case you get clobbered and become a 
spam relay (hence the "no server" ruling with some ISP's) so most people
send mail via their ISP's SMTP mail, using the ISP as their "smarthost".

Only 920 emails in ten days - that's two/three days worth here :)

Andy