[vox-tech] spam current events

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Fri 01 Sep 06,  3:02 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> said:
> Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p at dirac.org):
> 
> > You'd be shocked at the effectiveness of rejecting email that says it comes
> > from "dirac.org" or email that doesn't have a valid fqdn sender.
> [...]
> > All this stuff is done at the MTA level, so no delivery is attempted.  
> 
> Ditto that.
> 
> For those using the Exim4 MTA, consider the EximConfig prepackaged
> configuration set as a starting point:
> http://www.jcdigita.com/eximconfig/  It includes Exim4 ACLs that
> actively check for various forms of RFC compliance prior to SMTP-level 
> acceptance.
> 
> Kudos on joining the "reject, don't bounce" movement.  ;->
 
Yeah, I've always been there.  :)  Never understood why anyone in their
right mind would add yet _more_ spam related traffic to the net when we
already have so much.  It seems ... crazy to me.

Pete

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digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the
top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.  To think otherwise is to
demean the Buddha, which is to demean oneself.   -- Robert M. Pirsig

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