Fighting Spam
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These pages document some of my efforts to fight unsolicited bulk
e-mail, or "spam" as it is commonly called.
One technique that is very effective for blocking spam is to maintain
one or more blacklists of spam sources, and then refuse all e-mail
from those sources. The hard part is choosing the best blacklist(s),
because different blacklists have different listing policies, and the
more aggressive ones often list sources that send legitimate e-mail as
well as spam. Other lists are so conservative that they block almost
nothing at all. To aid in the selection of one or more of the public
DNS-based blacklists I publish a
comparison report that
summarizes my weekly survey results.
I maintain my own list of dialup zones,
but it is not available as a DNS-based blacklist.
See how I have modified Sendmail
to block a large fraction of the spam that is sent to
SDSC.
This document was last updated by
Jeff Makey <jeff@sdsc.edu> on
14 August 2012.