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

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Nils Breunese wrote:
> Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> If your K12LTSP server can handle it, why not just run spamd (which is
> just the SpamAssassin daemon, right?) on your K12LTSP server directly?
> I don't think there is a difference between OpenBSD's spamd and Fedora
> Core's spamd, is there?
>
> Nils Breunese.

Good question.  Actually, there is a big difference, and a lot of people
confuse OpenBSD's spamd with that of SpamAssassin, since the name of the
executable happens to be the same.  They are in fact different programs
with different strategies of dealing with spam.  They are not
replacements for each other; rather, they are complements.

--TP