From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7ee0d960296483 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-22 21:34:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F6FC7D4.3949160D@sympatico.ca> From: David Marceau X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17-10mdksmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current "Swen" worm attack References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:11:00 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.92.166.171 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1064290743 65.92.166.171 (Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:19:03 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:19:03 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42770 Date: 2003-09-23T00:11:00-04:00 List-Id: I got around 200 spam in the last two days and my mailbox at the isp hit the maximum capacity and started rejecting good emails. This is the biggest spam-tsunami I have experienced. If I had a $$$static ip/hostname/mail server at home, I would preferably do the server-side filtering myself through the open source spam filtering tools that already exist. As it stands, I am presently forced to configure a spam-filter plug-in into my mail client. Spam-removal plug-ins for mail clients and server-side spam-removal services will certainly have their demand increase. Since it seems there isn't enough spam filtering being done out there with the other developer languages at the mail server(both send&receive) end of things, maybe an ada eager-beaver would like to jump on an opportunity to increase the ada95 exposure through ada-based mail applications and show them out it should be done. Cheers, David Marceau