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

Sat Jan 27 21:46:32 UTC 2007

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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