On Saturday 20 September 2003 12:23 pm, Craig Lalley wrote:
> Allright, it is starting to get downright annoying.

Agreed!

> Could every one please at least scan your systems.

Well, to put your mind at ease, I'm running Linux from this address, and I've 
turned off my machine "at work" [which is, admittely, a windows system 
w/outlook] -- so I'm reasonably certain I'm not "contributing" to the madness 
at the moment :)

> The problem here is that I only have so much space and the e-mail's are
> filling up that space and blocking legitimate e-mail.
> What else can I do?

Well, I'm considering creating my own local mail server, set up with 
appropriate tools for catching, categorizing, and ultimately nuking 
spam-n-worms.  At least I'll have "peace of mind" that my personal inbox here 
at home will be, well, tame... ;)

At our last linux user group meeting, we had a presentation from a fellow that 
does exactly that, but at a "corporate" level.  Essentially the tools he is 
using are postfix [as the mailer -- think "sendmail"] and spamassassin.  
Postfix has a series of rules that can be set to simply disallow "known 
patterns of spam/worms", and spamassassin simply cleans up the rest -- THEN 
it goes to an internal [windows based] virus scanner and the internal mail 
server for the users in the organization.  The postfix/spamassassin combo is 
eliminating a significant portion of the messages so that neither the mail 
server nor viral scanner "chokes up and dies" anymore. 

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