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I find combinations of access db and the new sendmail rblns feature to
be quite sufficient for my purposes for blocking spam.  Add Amavis,
and virus protection becomes an option too.

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Sandip" == Sandip Bhattacharya <sandipb@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Sandip> Hi Raj!  It is indeed extremely stoopid and
    Sandip> cut-the-corners kinda approach taken by this sample.

    Sandip> However, he is right in one thing ... most of the SPAM
    Sandip> problems are occuring through servers in Asia. I monitor a
    Sandip> couple of medium traffic web mail systems, and the
    Sandip> spamming incidents are indeed worrisome. There are servers
    Sandip> in Japan, and other east asian countries which keep on
    Sandip> being the source of a large amount of spam.

    Sandip> Even after sending repeated mails to them, they simply do
    Sandip> not respond. Through their irresponsible actions they are
    Sandip> making other countries in the region the target of
    Sandip> world-wide action.Till some time back, some of the leading
    Sandip> ISPs of this country were open mail relays.  I agree, that
    Sandip> some of the folks, like the bloke you just had a tiff
    Sandip> with, can't tell one Asian country from the next and hence
    Sandip> make stupid generalisation judgements.

    Sandip> Is there ANY way of making these places accountable or in
    Sandip> other cases, just suffer??

    Sandip> RBLs are not being used by many ISPs. The ones that do,
    Sandip> use such insane judgements that they make me real
    Sandip> pissed. I remember a few sites like Topica, which has
    Sandip> banned the whole bigfoot.com domain!!  This is so
    Sandip> stupid. One can easily use fake domains while sending
    Sandip> mails! You don't even have to spoof IPs for sending mails
    Sandip> to these servers.

    Sandip> Really, I am really concerned about these SPAM
    Sandip> issues. What are other folks on this list about it???

    Sandip> - Sandip -- ------------------------------------- Sandip
    Sandip> Bhattacharya sandipb @ bigfoot.com http://www.sandipb.net
    Sandip> -------------------------------------

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Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/