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

[Peter Hartmann]

Wait....so how does it deal with false positives?  is it that non-spam
gets resent and then that makes it through?

Thanks,
Peter

On 4/12/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>
>  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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