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RE: ***TiVo Mailing List - SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT***


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: RE: ***TiVo Mailing List - SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT***
  • From: Jon Fautley <jon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:57:16 +0100 (BST)
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Chris Bond wrote:

> > And the spam situation is predicted to get worst, much worst. The
majority
> > of our e-mail server resources and bandwidth are wasted in
handling spam.
> > Spam is not as harmless as some people think.
>
> Have to agree there its getting stupid - if you saw the logs of
o2hoster
> you'd know how much spam mail it handles instead of "proper"
mail.  Apart
> from using RBLs there not much else you can do.

How about SpamAssassin at the SMTP level? If it's spam, the mailserver
just rejects it. Has the added bonus that once the spammer detects a
couple of bounced messages from your mailserver, it'll stop sending to it
:)

Jon



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