Checkout Those Stats!

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 2:42 AM

I've blocked over 40,000 spam messages since the beginning of the week, as you can see here. I'm thinking about re-enabling the DUL (dynamic users list) to block servers on dynamic IPs from sending e-mail to ServerForest — after looking into it, I know of exactly one person legitimately doing so in thousands of messages I looked through. This won't block users with dynamic IP's on their desktops, only those trying to send through a server on a dynamic IP (which in 99.9% of the cases means the PC has been hijacked). I also think I will remove some of the non-effective lists (no sense wasting resources querying servers that never block anything), and move some of the more-effective ones up in the order of the effectiveness… thereby reducing the amount of queries my server must make.

Tags: Comp/Tech

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2 comments posted so far.

RE: Checkout Those Stats!

Tim, I have DSL which uses dynamic IP. Will this mean I could get blocked from sending mail to CS-FSLUG?

Posted by David M. - Dec 11, 2004 | 10:09 AM- Location: Columbus, Ohio

RE: Checkout Those Stats!

No, not unless you run your own SMTP server on your computer.

Posted by Timothy R. Butler - Dec 11, 2004 | 4:11 PM- Location: MO

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