-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 April 2003 04:44 pm, Tom Diehl wrote: > On 22 Apr 2003, Joe Klemmer wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:29, Marie-Therese Lorentzen wrote: > > > I'm just curious - what is RBL? I'm totally in the dark here. > > > > I believe it stands for Real-time Black-hole List. > > > > > I just installed "mail washer" on my Windows XP (I have a dual > > > boot) as the spammails have become a rather big problem. As I > > > don't know how to stop spammail in Redhat (desktop version) I've > > > decided to first check my mail in Windows XP so as to eliminate > > > all my spams before going over to Redhat. > > > > Spamassassin is probably the best all-around option. It's easy > > to use and easy to setup. It comes with RH 8 and will make things > > much nicer for you WRT spam. > > Correct me if I am wrong BUT the problem with spamassassin is that > the receiving mail server still has to receive that garbage. I want a > solution that does not waste any more of my resources than absoutly > necessary. I am a big fan of rejecting spam based on it's source and > NEVER having it delivered an any way shape or form. AFAIK the only > way to accomplish that is through the use of header checks and RBL's. > The more load I can put on the spam scum's servers the better. > > Just my $.02. I cut most of my spam by blocking two asian high level IP addresses. It's easy to set up in sendmail. There are waaay too many legitmate addresses in RBL simply because someone sent it a blacklist report. Osirus is the worst followed closely by Spamcop. Spamcop get downright belligerant if you question their validity. mw - -- Registered Linux - 256979 NRA Life ARS: W0TMW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+pfVq5fq6h2uDDlQRAgZBAJ9pvYRWFInj7BSYe9Ir58SDGRXiOwCcCTz9 K1NRkjZjCHZCjWLpM9+m5rk= =Jomp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by F-Prot and MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
