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[Martyn]

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On Tuesday 16 March 2004 12:37, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I am seriously considering simply dropping SPAM instead of bouncing them.
> Anyone got any commments on this idea?

Personally, I do on all our sites and customer sites - mainly because I've not
seen SpamAssassin come up with a false positive (at 5 points), so I think
it's nigh-on impossible for genuine email to get dropped this way.

> I think that the topic of securing MTA's  would make a fine topic for a
> talk.

I'll second that!

> I haven't looked at spamassassin yet, but I may be soon. I understand it's
> relatively easy to set up. Anyone got any suggestions, ideas or howtos I
> can have?

If you must, I can recommend a good guide (offlist mail me, I promise I don't
whitelist!), however I have an upcoming talk on it :-)

> One method that does still seem popular is grabbing the email address when
> people visit web sites, which makes sense as these will be better
> targetted. This is easy to get around as our firewall blocks all personal
> data leaving the building.

I get round this by using a dynamic dns domain for all spam stuff with a
(company I filled in the form for)@(spam1).dnsalias.net, then add regexp
dropping after the mail has arrived.  Also lets you know which companies are
selling the mail address.

> --
> Gary Stainburn
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Martyn
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