Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 3 - How to stop spam?

["Wayne Sagar" <shortfork@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On this same subject: I've been stripping whatever information I can from 
incoming spam and then adding the information to the reject list in the 
control panel. The list is getting rather long. Does this cause a 
significant hit on performance on the mail server? How many entries are "too 
many entries"

It's often hard to tell exactly where the mail comes from. Some have two 
recived from headers.

It does seem to have significantly slowed the receipt of unwanted mail and I 
am trying to be careful to not add blanket entries like hotmail.com and 
such.

Lately it seems that other than my mailing list stuff, spam has become about 
80% of my mail.

Semi OT: Do these spammers actually get results from this crap? I wonder who 
is buying the services.

I suppose someone who just opens up a new site and sees the "Gazzillion 
email addresses bargain prices" spams have a light bulb go off and figure... 
"hey.. this would work" are the source of a lot of it?

WS




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