Re: [cobalt-users] Spam blocking

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 02:34 am, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight 
Solutions wrote:

> Do you mean you want to bounce the spam with a URL in the bounce
> message? Please tell me you are joking.

You weren't responding to me, but speaking only for myself, from one of 
our webservers alone (one I'm watching daily) we block approximately 
10,000 pieces of email daily.

We include a URL in the block message.

During the month of December the site referenced in our spam block 
bounce messages for all our servers received 138 hits from a total of 
10 sites, for a total of 856 KBytes served.

This month the hits have picked up as I've mentioned the page as an idea 
others could borrow from; we've had 246 hits from a total of 51 sites, 
for a total of 2,125 KBytes served.

I didn't keep stats for all of last year, but as memory serves we had no 
requests to whitelist at all so far this month, and only a maximum of 
three (I can't remember if it was two or three) last year.

As someone, perhaps Dan, pointed out, spammers don't look at the rejects 
(if they even get them), and don't visit the site.

If you look at our page (http://www.spamblocked.net/) you'll see that we 
make whitelisting extremely simple.

Examining our source code will also show that we encode email addresses 
on our sites against scraping.

For those afraid to set up their own block page we're happy to offer the 
service.

Jeff
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