[sdiy] Help - I am being mailbombed

[Tom Arnold]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:56:29AM -0700, greg montalbano wrote:
> What's interesting to me is the "Microsoft Outlook Express" in those 
> headers--
> from all accounts, you can greatly lessen you susceptibility to viruses by 
> losing that program, and getting something like Eudora (which is available 
> as a free download).

Another good up and coming email program is Thunderbird from the
Mozilla project.  While its still fairly early in its dev cycle, its free and
it does Bayesian spam filtering which is extremely nice.  Because I own
so many domains ( over 70 ) and I by default accept mail to any address at
those domains, I get quite a bit of spam.  I use a bayesian spam filter
( spamoracle ) to rank inbound email, set a spam score, and also mark if
they have attachments.  Procmail then filters anything with a pif/scr/exe
extension and it gets chunked into a Virus folder, and anything scoring high
on the spam count gets into the spam folder.

At its worst a few weeks ago, I was getting 100,000 ( yes, thats 5 zeros )
Sobigs emails a day, and on an average day I get 2500 spam of various 
flavours.  This filtering has dropped that to a trickle ( 3 or 4 a day )
and in the last 2 months, I've had 1 false positive and I berated that
person for sending me an attachment... 

On a more topical subject, PAIA said they will copy the Super Controller
issue of Polyphony and pay special attention to the page with the board
layout on it.  Thats $12.50.  I'll try to snag one of the sets of
back issues first, if not then I'll order the copy from PAIA.  I'm
interested in this thing too as I still have a handful of the chips and
want to play with them a little more.

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