BLU server and spam

[Derek Atkins]

Are you sure it's spam and not Klez?

-derek

John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> writes:

> "Derek D. Martin" <ddm at pizzashack.org> writes:
> 
> > At some point hitherto, John Abreau hath spake thusly:
> > > Are there any issues I should watch out for?
> > 
> > I haven't used it, but I'll offer the caveat that whenever you filter
> > mail, you run the risk of filtering deisreable mail.
> > 
> > That, and that the amount of spam I've gotten from this list is almost
> > zero.  Under such circumstances, I wonder if it's really worth the
> > effort...
> 
> I hadn't gotten much spam myself until recently, and now I've suddenly 
> been getting a ton of it in the past few weeks. I'm concerned that this
> might represent a tidal wave of new spam that could choke the server, 
> or possibly spammers getting more clever and perhaps finding ways to 
> bypass mailman's protections.
> 
> 
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