changes at lne.com
Trei, Peter
ptrei at rsasecurity.com
Mon May 12 12:21:05 PDT 2003
I hope you whitelist known regular posters. I subscribe to
minder, but often post thru lne.
Peter Trei
> ----------
> From: Eric Murray[SMTP:ericm at lne.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: cypherpunks at lne.com
> Subject: changes at lne.com
>
> The spam load at lne.com is WAY too high.
> Last month for example there was an average of 96 spams per day submitted
> to cypherpunks at lne.com. "submitted" means that it was the first
> time we saw that particular mail. Since the CDR system sends everything
> to all nodes, that means we got and passed on about 4x that number.
> 800 spams a day is a waste.
>
> So I have changed the way we deal with CDR mail. We will no longer pass
> to other CDRs mail that we would not send to subscribers. Eliminating
> outbound spam will cut our cypherpunks spam load in half.
>
> I am also going to filter the non-subscriber mail more effectively.
> Lately I have had to check about 50 spams a day to see if they are
> actually posts to the list. I find one real post every two or three days.
> Now I will save for human processing only the non-subscriber mail that is
> PGP signed or encrypted, or that looks like a reply.
> The majority of non-subscriber mails I've forwarded to the list
> have been replies. (I'll save everything for a while to make
> sure my filtering works).
>
> As always, other CDR operators and anyone else interested
> in running a CDR are welcome to my scripts.
>
> Eric
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