[Gllug] new types of spam

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:08:58AM +0100, mimo wrote:
> Ian Norton wrote:
> 
> >Hiya,
> >
> >has anyone else had any new type of spam where written in very plain 
> >clear english with no normal spam tricks , where someone tries to sell 
> >you close combat and anti-aircraft weaponry?
> 
> Any nuclear weapons available? :)
> 
> Hearing this I kind of start missing spam.... We are running this on our 
> servers http://mimo.gn.apc.org/gps/ -- result very little spam, no to 
> say none

Interesting to see that information hosted at GreenNet.  GreenNet put
that system on their own mail servers a few months back and it caused a
few problems.   At the time they put it in, I was a sysadmin at an
organisation that had a lot of contacts with GreenNet accounts and our
staff suddenly found that their e-mail conversations with those people
suddenly slowed to a crawl.  Only some of this was down to
misconfiguration.

Greylisting needs to be very carefully tuned or it can become an
annoyance for others and even for your own staff.


-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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