spam...

[ME]

Neverr used tmda, that would be good to have you include it. Thanks for
joining! Woot!

:-D

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Christopher Wagner said:
> On my own mail server at home, I use tmda (http://www.tmda.net/) as an
> alternative to SpamAssassin.  I find it to be *quite* effective in
> reducing the amount of unwanted traffic to my inbox. :)  I wouldn't mind
> participating in the talk and speaking about TMDA and it's configuration
> and indeed, if needed or wanted, my experiences with SpamAssassin.  We
> use SpamAssassin here at my work and it is effective, but not as
> effective, I feel as TMDA.  (Though, TMDA introduces other issues).
>
> - Christopher Wagner
> chrisw at pacaids.com
>
> Packaging Aids Corporation - Information Systems
> P.O. Box 9144
> San Rafael, CA 94912-9144
> http://www.pacaids.com/
> (415) 454-4868 x116
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: E Frank Ball [mailto:frankb at efball.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:16 PM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: Re: spam...
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:59:33AM -0800, Mike Egan, ME wrote:
> } Hello all,
> }
> } I have just been playing with spam assassin and squirrelmail and
> maildrop } and found spam filtering can be a pretty cool thing. I
> suggest a talk on } what to do to decrease spam on a Linux server, and
> Linux client. }
> } I could talk about this so long as someone else is willing to cover
> the } RedHat counterparts for the installation of the packages...
>
> No talk on spam would be complete without a discussion of procmail
> filtering, mailserver configuration (postfix access list type things),
> and firewall configuration (blackhole Asia, Central and South America,
> etc.)  also.  At sonic I use procmail to delete 80% of my mail before
> routing to spamassassin.  At home I bypass spamassassin for 90% of my
> mail because spamassasin is such a resource pig, and most of my
> blacklisting is done at the firewall.
>
> --
>
>    E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com