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

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

I will write up a document on this and email it to the list, then.

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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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