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Started by Systems and Software Group
Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:32
COMPUTER: spam: efforts underway
Author: Systems and Software Group
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:32
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:32
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As we are all painfully aware, the e-mail spam problem, which has been a thorn in our sides for years, has been getting quite drastically worse over the past couple of months. The good news is that I have now been freed to work on this, and I am looking forward to thwarting those low-life spammers! It will take me a few weeks, I suspect, to decide on all of the specific measures I want to take, but I expect to be adding filters in stages during that time, starting now. As of a bit after 13:00 yesterday, the three IITS mail relay machines are rejecting mail from hosts listed in the "RBL+" spam-list service. I have been using that service on my own mail for some time, and I have found that no legitimate mail has been rejected by that filter. Anyway, although there is still a lot of spam that is not caught by RBL+, this measure will reduce the incoming spam a little bit. I will be introducing additional measures over the coming weeks. If you'd like to be a guinea-pig for testing future anti-spam measures, and you know how to configure your mail reader to refile mail based on information in message headers, send me a note telling me you'd like to help test. I'll contact you in a little while when I'm ready to test new anti-spam candidate software. Anne. -- Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8 anne@alcor.concordia.ca +1 514 848-7606
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