[K12OSN] OT: just reduced spam by 95% with Free Software

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Here you go.  Hope it helps someone.  It's been two and a half months
now, and it sure helped me.

PART I:
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252&tid=115

PART II:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1631206

--TP

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Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
> I will write up a document on this and email it to the list, then.
>
> --TP
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>
> Huck wrote:
>> Terrell...more info please? ;)
>>
>> --Huck
>>
>> Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I will first admit that this is somewhat off-topic from K12LTSP. 
>>> That said, schools could benefit from this.  This is definitely
>>> applicable for those of you who asked about using K12LTSP as an
>>> email server for your students.
>>>
>>> We all know about the spam problem.  Well, over this last week, I
>>> have been playing with OpenBSD's spamd as a possible solution. 
>>> Basically, I put the spamd box in front of my (yes, GNU/Linux) email
>>> server.  I have now reduced the spam count in my inbox from close to
>>> 200 a day down to...five.  FIVE.  This is without false positives. 
>>> I have verified that by studying my spamd logs all week and
>>> comparing them to my real email server's logs.
>>>
>>> For those of you with small pipes to the Internet, this is
>>> *definitely* something you might want to consider.  It saves you
>>> some bandwidth.
>>>
>>> If anyone's interested, let me know.
>>>
>>> --TP
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