Re: Solid facts to promote Ada

[Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>]

On 2003-10-24, Adrian Hoe <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com> wrote:

> I received bounced emails which I never sent. Checking the IP of the 
> email origin, I concluded someone is trying to spam using my domain name 
> and possibly also my smtp. That's horrible!

I also recieve bounced e-mail I never sent, but these are made from
viruses which forge the mails, not using the mail server. You should
check the setup so that your mail server is not relaying mails. There is
a page to test this: http://www.abuse.net/relay.html

Are you recieving spams to postmaster and root?

> Talking about filters, I tried many, including this one above. They are 
> so cumbersome and sometime do not recognize friend and foe correctly. 
> And some spammers have even invented ways to by pass filters. I received 
> a few dozens of those with a spam filter installed.

I get about 30-50 spams a day. I use ifile and it filters 98% correctly.
It also filters my mailinglists so it is quite good actually. bogofilter
and bmp are aslo good they say. For mail
servers there is: mailscanner

http://www.debianhelp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3178

I see you have turned of finger which is good.

But I see that you have made a mistake on your webpage. You have listed
an e-mail address there. This will be harvested by the spam robots when
they crawl the web (not usenet). I would advice you to do like I have
done: http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Contact/

This way you only give your mail address when replying to those filling
out your form.

Regards,

Preben
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