tons of spam

[jdow]

From: "Randy Vice" <damocles at thenostromo.com>

> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 09:09 -0400, Randy Vice wrote:
>>> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>
>>>> jdow wrote:
>>>>> Chu - directing that at greshko might have been more appropriate.
>>>>> "Ed" was most impolite for no good reason. "Scroom and the horse
>>>>> he rode in on," would be a suitable reply for Ed's behavior.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure about "no good reason".  Somebody signs up for a mailing 
>>>> list
>>>> with their "normal" email address and it gets harvested and they get 
>>>> more
>>>> spam and then say the distribution is flawed based on that.....well it 
>>>> just
>>>> gets my goat.  The induhvidual blames everyone except themselves.
>>>>
>>>> Let's not get into a tit for tat on "behavior" shall we.  I can surely 
>>>> point
>>>> out times where others "behavior" went over my line....or is it over 
>>>> your
>>>> line....or is it over some imaginary line....
>>>>
>>>> The simple point I suppose I should have made is...you put your email
>>>> address on a public list and you expose yourself to spam.  Should the 
>>>> email
>>>> list be responsible to protect you from your folly?  I think not.
>>>
>>> It would nice if Fedora was to setup spam filters when someone selects
>>> a SMTP to be installed.  Sort of like how IPtables is setup to be
>>> installed and running at boot.
>>>
>>> Randy
>> How about pointing out that Linux has spam fighting programs that can be
>> used?
>
> That would be the preconfigured spam filters that would be installed when 
> someone selects a SMTP to be installed.  I'm more of a end user and the 
> last time I attempted to configure sendmail to use a filter, I broke it. 
> It maybe a simple process for those who are system admins, for some of us, 
> it can be complicated vs just deleting tons of spam daily.

I may have some "sharp words" about the spam fighting tools that come with
FC7. I have little time to play with it. And it does not like my laptop.
So I have to download a bunch of debug files so I can track it down. (The
bug is in X-Windows so the gnome based folks want me to download and
install an unknown number of gnome debug files. Go figure. When I have
time I will humor them. But it's hard as heck to debug a frozen machine
that has kicked the display out the window, metaphorically speaking. The
SpamAssassin RPMS that came with FC4 and FC5 seemed to be incomplete when
I attempted to use them in the past. And for an effective SpamAssassin
install SOME mention of the Spam Assassin Rules Emporium is properly
required, as is mention of FuzzyOCR and a couple other gems.

(SARE is so effective it was included in the massive DDoS attack that
struck Spamhaus as well. Some spammer got REALLY peaved, po' baby.)

{^_-}   <- Yes, Joanne is VERY opinionated.