[BBLISA] State of spam filtering?

Daniel Feenberg feenberg at nber.org
Mon May 20 19:18:04 EDT 2013


We have an excellent experience with Spamhaus, and as an RBL has the 
advantage (with most MTAs) that mail is refused rather than discarded, so 
the sender is aware of the problem and can seek alternative modes of 
communication.

dan feenberg

On Mon, 20 May 2013, Rob Taylor wrote:

> I've used Ironport, and I'm looking at some stuff from a company called Proofpoint.
> Ironport works well for us, but seems to have fallen into the just another product that has category.
> I haven't seen any major updates or advancements in the past few years.
>
> rgt
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>> Hello folks,
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>> I haven't had to touch much spam filtering stuff for a while, but
>> we've had a recent increase in spam, so I'm digging back in.
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>> I noticed that Spamassassin's last release was in 2011, which isn't
>> encouraging. What's everyone running for spam filtering these days?
>> Any particular RBLs that are helpful? Not so helpful? Any new
>> shared-hash solutions like Razor?
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>> John
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>> John Miller
>> Systems Engineer
>> Brandeis University
>> johnmill at brandeis.edu
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