[lug] Stopping the New Generation of Spam

[Chip Atkinson]

I'm just hitting delete, but there is something else worth noting -- the
senders now retry their spam whereas they used to just send out and if a
connection was dropped they wouldn't bother.  

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Bill Thoen wrote:

> Over the last 2-3 months I've been getting a *lot* more spam than ever
> before and Spamassassin doesn't seem to be reacting fast enough or
> effectively enough to deal with it. In particular, it doesn't seem to be
> able to block these messages filled with random snippets of english
> text and/or those where the message is embedded as an image. It also looks
> like some of these spams are coming form large networks of compromised
> machines (same message comes from many different unrelated IPs) so blocking
> by IP is less effective. I used to get about 250 spams a day, but now it's
> up to 350-500 a day, and it's increasing.
> 
> How are people dealing with this new onslaught? What sort of filtering or
> tools work these days? If this keeps up it will eventually overwhelm my
> little Linux server and become sort of indistinguishable from a Denial of
> Service attack!
> 
> Or is this just the holiday rush where all the spammers just squeal louder
> and shove harder trying to get their snouts into the trough?
> 
> - Bill Thoen
> 
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