On 12/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Bibbs</b> <<a href="mailto:tony@tonybibbs.com">tony@tonybibbs.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That's a little too strong of an analogy but point taken. I should be<br>doing as much as I can to prevent spam from even hitting the mailbox but<br>once there TMDA works well. And while TMDA generates more outbound mail
<br>destined for non-existent mail servers...it is effective.</blockquote><div><br>
I used to get between 9 and 11 thousand spams per day. Every day.
SpamAssassin would catch 98 or 99%, leaving well over a hundred in my
inbox. Life sucked. Then I started greylisting and life got a lot
better. My inbound spams are down under 1000 per day, spamc/spamd no
longer consume 95% of my cpu time and I rarely get more than 1 or 2 UCE
messages in a day in my inbox. What I get now is a flood of
TMDA/Earthlink/etc challenges when j.random spammer decides to forge
their sending address from one of my domains. Seems to happen every
other week or so, a few hundred at a time.<br>
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