[Talk] Closing AUUG lists to non-subscribers

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:04, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2004-May-14 13:53:19 +0930, Daniel O'Connor <darius at dons.net.au> wrote:
> >On Fri, 14 May 2004 12:44, Greg Black wrote:
> >> I don't want to unsubscribe, because the few legitimate posts
> >> are of interest to me -- but I'm fed up with the regular spam.
> >> Surely there is something that can be done about this?
> >
> >You could add Bayes spam filtering to your end and filter mails that way..
>
> You still have to (pay to) download it.  What's the point in downloading
> couple of megabytes of MicroSloth virii every day just to have your spam
> filter throw them away.

I pay for it anyway since I run my own mail server...

Could try sbl/xbl block lists from spamhaus.org too (on the AUUG server) - it 
seems to work fairly well here (my home system) and I don't believe I've had 
any false positives (certainly the mail reject message only contains 
obviously wrong things)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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