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Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Wed May 19 00:49:50 2004

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:49:03 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Joe Boyce <jboyce@shasta.com>
Cc: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>,
	"Claydon, Tom" <Tom.Claydon@DobsonTelco.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1172847777.20040517140033@shasta.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



On 5/17/2004 4:00 PM, Joe Boyce wrote:

> I Googled around and found a bunch of rulesets that once installed,
> started tagging those hard to get messages.
> 
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/ is a good place to start if anybody else
> is running Spam Assassin straight out of the box.

There's one rule that will wipe out ~90% of spam, but nobody seems to have
written it yet.

  if URL IP addr is in China then score=100

support for a generic lookup list of cidr blocks would get another 9%

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