From: Knud Jørgensen <none@knud_jorgensen--mac.com.lh.bsd-dk.dk> Subject: Re: Modtager spam pga BSD-DK! Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:10:32 +0200 To: bsd-dk@bsd-dk.dk
Maybe it is OK using the expression " use as many of there resources
as you
possibly can" but is it not our commen resources and therefor a loss
for us all. So don't
fight them ignore it out of anyones way. So catch it as early as
possible and drop it.
kj
Den 24/04/2006 kl. 12.14 skrev Laust S. Jespersen:
> Jesper Rønnekilde wrote:
>>> On 4/24/06, Allan Wermuth <none@alw--it-service.sdu.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Forwarding all Your mail to the Gmail account, and then fetching
>>>> them
>>>> back again, using
>>>> POP/SSL, doesn't actually reduce the amount of traffic in your
>>>> domain.
>>> Indeed it can. MX records can use bandwidth of a different network
>>> entirely compared to websites, as it is in my example.
>>>
>>> But my solution is mainly to reduce inbound spam which has to be
>>> manually processed. I'm not that low on bandwidth.
>>>
>>> Of course POP3 over SSL is more bandwidth intensive compared to
>>> POP3,
>>> but now I'm more safe as well, since my mailbox provider only
>>> supports
>>> unencrypted POP3 and nothing else. Using GMail over SSL is for me a
>>> much better solution.
>>>
>>> I even filter that mail through SpamAssassin and ClamAV when it gets
>>> home to me, and after that filtering there's only a tiny fragment of
>>> spam getting through. Convenient.
>> Accept that you can't fight spam at your MTA! Set up filtering at
>> your MUA
>> ;-)
>> /jesper
> If you received the Spam mail, then *you* have lost.
> Filtering the mail afterwards still uses *your* resources on
> something that *you* did not ask for.
>
> Refusing them at the door (filtering at/before the MTA and/or using
> spamd/tarpit) might take some resources, but at least you wont
> get their crap on your system.
>
> IMHO sending your mail on a trip through gmail won't help anything,
> since gmail filters at the MUA level (which in this case is a good
> thing since you would not want mail from someone not arriving @ your
> gmail account) so the Spam still gets delivered to you (and the you
> have lost)
>
> But for personal mail... refuse them as early as you possibly can, and
> use as many of *their* resources as you possibly can.
>
> --
> Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards
> Laust Jespersen
> http://www.ust.dk
> ======================================================================
> Viking Rule of Acquisition 1: Remember where you beached the long ship
>
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