Re: gEDA: The "Details" Email

[Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>]

Ales Hvezda wrote:
> PS. The number of spam / virii / spam cleaning e-mails that do not get
>     posted to geda* is quite large.  I think it's about 50-60 a day
>     which do not make it to the list.  Knock on wood. *knock knock*
Lucky scum.

These are the dns block lists that icarus.com uses:

  bl.spamcop.net  (The most effective filter, dynamic and accurate.)
  dnsbl.njabl.org
  relays.ordb.org
  proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl
  cn-kr.blackholes.us    (Yes, all of China and Korea)
  nigeria.blackholes.us  (Yes, all of Nigeria)
  cihost.blackholes.us   (CI Host is suing AOL over spam filters.)
  interbusiness.blackholes.us

Around 800/day are rejected by these lists.
Another 100/day are sent to random users in the icarus.com domain.
(Dictionary attacks.)

You have no idea how bad the spam situation is out there until
you are running your own mail server.

Oh, I'm not counting the ongoing CodeRed probes against the http
port that are now considered a natural part of the Internet back-
ground noise. ipchains is my friend.
--
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