[65032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Re: Openwave Opinions]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Nov 10 11:19:19 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:14:41 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: joshua sahala <joshua.ej.smith@usa.net>
Cc: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>,
"Fisher, Shawn" <SFisher@Bresnan.com>,
"Nanog List (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <371HkJqDW4208S18.1068480228@uwdvg018.cms.usa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
joshua sahala writes on 11/10/2003 11:03 AM:
> there are some online spam archives that you can download and feed, and
> while it may take you a little time to write a script to push the archives
training on your spam feed is what will work for you. rather longish
and laborious process though.
> i am no longer associated with them, but usa.net has some good stuff too,
> and while i would, for financial reasons, prefer to roll my own,
Oh yes. Definitely.
> outsourcing can be an effective way to manage your email, but it comes
> down to a cost/benefit analysis.
Doesn't everything, ultimately? :)
>>Or you might elect to get a managed antispam solution that plugs into
>>your mta (kind of like brightmail or spamsquelcher.org)
> brightmail is quite good
I can say that spamsquelcher is really very good - I know some of the
people behind it, and I got to see their stuff at ISPCON. It has a lot
of potential (treat your inbound spam flow the same way you'd treat an
inbound DDoS, sample inbound SMTP and QoS down suspected traffic)
> i agree - like i said above, you can tailor it to suit your needs. one
> size does not necessarily fit all
yup.
srs
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