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Re: What is going on in debian-user?



On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:35:42AM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
> Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de>:
> > 
> >  Sometimes I have the impression that the people who complain the most
> >  about spam from Debian lists are the ones who don't even know how *bad*
> >  the spam problem actually is. Even on my own mail server with only four
> 
> Recent estimates I've seen suggest up to 80% of the traffic on the net
> is spam or malware.
> 
> >  valid mail addresses plus some aliases I reject more than a thousand
> >  delivery attempts every day. Receiving 20-50 spam mails a day is surely
> >  an annoyance. But you are still only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
> 
> It amazes me that they refuse to accept the obvious.  Linux/Debian/Gnu
> provides all the solutions they need, yet they continue to rely on
> Lookout! and Gmail, instead of slapping in procmail/mailfilter and
> bogofilter/SA.  Huh.  I've no sympathy, sorry.  I'm not seeing a crap
> flood from where I'm sitting.
all relative, I have seen a flood (well 5-8 extra ons pop up), I have sa, grey 
listing and my primary mx doesn't accept port 25.

me agree a flood, but by no means anything more than a small annoyance :)
> 
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