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Re: Controlling Spam to the NOC

  • From: measl
  • Date: Thu May 23 17:10:09 2002

<ramble>
You hit it dead on: use all the tools at your disposal, but preemptively
"whitelist" your customers.  Unfortunately, the whitelisting isn't always as
easy as it sounds.  If they are within your IP space, you're good to go, but
if they have the rare portable block, or they are multihomed, etc., you need
to be more careful.
</ramble>

In Short: Whitelist like crazy, and then blacklist like mad!

 On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jeff Workman wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Has anybody on this list figured out an effective way to eliminiate, or at 
> least severely limit, the amount of spam that arrives in your NOC?  I am 
> aware of solutions such as Spamassassin, Vipul's Razor, and the various RBL 
> lists, but has anybody used one of these solutions, or anything else, to 
> reduce the amount of spam going into [email protected]/[email protected]/etc mailboxes without 
> severely restricting the rest of the internet's ability to reach the noc 
> via email for legitimate purposes?  Particularly in a NOC where it's quite 
> possible that some of your customers are listed in the RBLs but still need 
> to reach you.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> --
> Jeff Workman | [email protected] | http://www.pimpworks.org
> 

-- 
Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
[email protected]

If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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