Re: Spam & GCI

We have Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Firewall's that are the cat's meow. I can tw=
eak via point and click all the levers I ever wanted or needed to and don=
't have to babysit it. Letting our MTA's do the job they were built for i=
s so nice.

Dee

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Schumacher [mailto:schu@schu.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:45 PM
>To: 'Leif Sawyer'
>Cc: aklug@aklug.org
>Subject: Re: Spam & GCI
>
>We (Alaska Power and Telephone) pretty much had no choice but to
>whitelist GCI due to the massive amount of false positives that spamcop =

>blocking generated.
>
>Leif is right, monitoring what your users send is a huge task and is
>almost impossible with any real effectiveness.
>
>I agree that filtering before the message is accepted (read milter) is
>very powerful but I don't think GCI is using sendmail.
>
>This is why I don't care for MTAs that accept the message before any
>processing is done (qmail, exchange, etc.)
>
>Virus scanning before the message is accepted is especially cool because=
 
>viruses a stopped at the edge which greatly reduces double bounces.
>
>schu
>
>Leif Sawyer wrote:
>> Dee writes:
>>
>>>Need I say more ? Leif ?
>>>
>>>http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=3Dcheckblock&ip=3D208.138.130.81
>>
>> C'est no moi.
>>
>> The problem is that customers are sending spam through, which gets
>> reported and treated as if it were relayed (which, it was) through
>> an open server (which it is not)
>>
>>
>> Practically every ISP deals with this, I'm sure. And even if they're
>> enforcing authentication for every mail, all that does is give them
>> more 'meat' to go after the infringing customer.
>>
>> We do go after the infringers -- in fact, yesterday there were at
>> least 8 folks shut off for spamming. I've got a couple packet-caps
>> for the evidence file.
>>
>>
>> But I don't have anything to do with the mail systems. Although
>> I did report this to them yesterday.
>>
>> :-)
>>
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