Logistics vs hystereisis [was: Dealing with SPAM.]

2023-12-26 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 01:49:17PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] (it's actually a logistic function [1]). > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function > > Looking forward to Yet Another Of Those Nerdy Monster Threads ;-) > > Since it's happeni

Re: Dealing with SPAM.

2023-12-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] (it's actually a logistic function [1]). > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function > Looking forward to Yet Another Of Those Nerdy Monster Threads ;-) Since it's happening periodically with about the same participants, shouldn't we rather try to mod

Re: Dealing with SPAM.

2023-12-25 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 11:19:43AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 25.12.2023 um 08:56:41 Uhr schrieb Brad Rogers: > > > On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:50:13 +1100 > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > Hello Zenaan, > > > > >OMG money! I, being Debian User it > > > > The best thing to do is ignore SPAM.

Re: Dealing with SPAM.

2023-12-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 11:19:43AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 25.12.2023 um 08:56:41 Uhr schrieb Brad Rogers: > > > On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:50:13 +1100 > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > Hello Zenaan, > > > > >OMG money! I, being Debian User it > > > > The best thing to do is ignore SPAM.

Re: Dealing with SPAM.

2023-12-25 Thread Marco Moock
Am 25.12.2023 um 08:56:41 Uhr schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:50:13 +1100 > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Hello Zenaan, > > >OMG money! I, being Debian User it > > The best thing to do is ignore SPAM. > > If you *must* reply, don't quote the whole thing and send it to the > list

Dealing with SPAM.

2023-12-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:50:13 +1100 Zenaan Harkness wrote: Hello Zenaan, >OMG money! I, being Debian User it The best thing to do is ignore SPAM. If you *must* reply, don't quote the whole thing and send it to the list *again*. Thank you. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}

Re: dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-05 Thread Tim Kelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 August 2004 23:06, Steven Jones wrote: > Our site is being constantly "hit" by spammers using bruteforce tactics > looking for valid users. > > At present our servers bounce with "no valid user" is this the best tactic? > or is it simpl

Re: dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joost On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Joost De Cock wrote: > you may find this document to be very helpfull: > http://slett.net/spam-filtering-for-mx/ good doc ... but too much reading for me :-) - i like doc's that have example config files for each of those filtering scheme's you mentioned :-)

Re: dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-05 Thread Joost De Cock
Quoting Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Our site is being constantly "hit" by spammers using bruteforce tactics > looking for valid users. *snip* > suggestions please? Steven (and others), you may find this document to be very helpfull: http://slett.net/spam-filtering-for-mx/ It does a gr

Re: dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-04 Thread John Summerfield
Steve Lamb wrote: Steven Jones wrote: At present our servers bounce with "no valid user" is this the best tactic? Depends on what you mean by "bounce". or is it simply better to stop such bounce msgs? while polite, spammers are taking the p*ss If you mean your server gives

Re: dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-04 Thread John Summerfield
Steve Lamb wrote: John Summerfield wrote: I've not yet explored how to do it, but I quite like the idea of blocking connexions from anyone trying my spambait addresses below (yes, they are turning up in my logs). For a while I thought about blocking connections from dictionary spammers a

Re: dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-04 Thread Steve Lamb
John Summerfield wrote: > I've not yet explored how to do it, but I quite like the idea of > blocking connexions from anyone trying my spambait addresses below (yes, > they are turning up in my logs). For a while I thought about blocking connections from dictionary spammers and spammers that c

Re: dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Steven Jones wrote: > At present our servers bounce with "no valid user" is this the best tactic? Depends on what you mean by "bounce". > or is it simply better to stop such bounce msgs? while polite, spammers are > taking the p*ss If you mean your server gives a 5xx at SMTP time, th

Re: dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-04 Thread John Summerfield
Steven Jones wrote: Our site is being constantly "hit" by spammers using bruteforce tactics looking for valid users. At present our servers bounce with "no valid user" is this the best tactic? or is it simply better to stop such bounce msgs? while polite, spammers are taking the p*ss I've

dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-04 Thread Steven Jones
Our site is being constantly "hit" by spammers using bruteforce tactics looking for valid users. At present our servers bounce with "no valid user" is this the best tactic? or is it simply better to stop such bounce msgs? while polite, spammers are taking the p*ss We are running postfix and