[aclug-L] Re: Controlling Spam

[Chris Owen <owenc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, bruce wrote:

> Recently I have been inundated with spam, Sometimes more than 70
> per=20 day.  I'm running R/H 7.2 and using kmail.  kmail's filters are
> useful,=20 but were only catching about 10% of the spam.  I tried
> several times to=20 set up a way to control the spam, each time
> running into some obstacle=20 that I couldn't overcome - usually
> incomprehensible or incomplete=20 instructions or missing dependencies
> that seemed to be not available=20 anywhere. =20
>
> I finally found a page that said to run=20 perl -MCPAN -e 'install
> Mail::SpamAssassin' and it installed=20 spamassassin (damn magic), but
> I couldn't figure out how to hook it up=20 to kmail.  HowTos, man
> pages, magazine articles, tutorials on the web=20 didn't help.
>
> Until last night.  I found a web page that I could follow and that
> had=20 all the detail I needed:
>
> http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html
>
> And it worked!  Since 1:00 this morning, 61 spams identified
> correctly,=20 five messages correctly identified as real email, and
> no=20 false-negatives or false-positives.  Spamassassin is great.

Here are my stats for my personal email address (same address for 8 years
and it appears online in quite a few places):

During the last 21 days at my personal address I have recived 48,655
emails (2,316 a day)

398 of those were notifications of someone sending me a infected email
that we blocked.

42,094 (2,004 a day) of those were spam (87%).

"Real" mail (of which some is of course still spam) was 6,163 (293 a day).

What is really sad about those numbers is they are actually a little
better the past month than normal.

Chris

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