Ok, I implied that it was simpler than it was. I used to get hundreds of spams per day. Evidently it was very important for me to buy pills that would make my penis larger.
Really, we're all getting the amount of spam you'd expect if you've had your address for any period of time or have participated on any open discussion list of size on the internet.
1. I'm hosting my own mail. My server's are colo'd and have been for the past 8 years or so.
2. I implemented grey listing on the server. This dropped the spam by... a large percent. The log stats confirm this. The ratio of legitimate mail to real mail is pitiful. 10 to 1 on a good day. [1]
3. I'm letting spam assassin catch the easy stuff. Its not the best, but it does its job fairly well.
4. The remainder consists of image spam and 'ascii art' which I've taught my mua to handle with the aforementioned rules since as Darxus mentioned, trying to teach a baysian filter about those 2 concepts is futile.
So, I did have to invest some time in priming the pump as it were. However, I haven't devoted a significant amount of time to spam ever since I realized that my vigilence amounted to me pissing in the wind.
I used to be 'that guy'. The guy who would forward spam taking great pains to ensure headers were intact, to the appropriate abuse departments. I used to stand up like a 2 year old and yell 'I found it!!!', or at least the moral equivelent.
So, hi. My name is Jason and I'm a recovering spam nazi.
My real point is, of the remainder of easily spotted spam, its simple to create a couple rules that do a great job to catching the obvious rest. Granted I still get a couple spams a week, but thats not too bad when you consider the percentage that represents.
[1] I also eliminated the 'catch all' spam sponge accounts for my domains.
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Really, we're all getting the amount of spam you'd expect if you've had your address for any period of time or have participated on any open discussion list of size on the internet.
1. I'm hosting my own mail. My server's are colo'd and have been for the past 8 years or so.
2. I implemented grey listing on the server. This dropped the spam by... a large percent. The log stats confirm this. The ratio of legitimate mail to real mail is pitiful. 10 to 1 on a good day. [1]
3. I'm letting spam assassin catch the easy stuff. Its not the best, but it does its job fairly well.
4. The remainder consists of image spam and 'ascii art' which I've taught my mua to handle with the aforementioned rules since as Darxus mentioned, trying to teach a baysian filter about those 2 concepts is futile.
So, I did have to invest some time in priming the pump as it were. However, I haven't devoted a significant amount of time to spam ever since I realized that my vigilence amounted to me pissing in the wind.
I used to be 'that guy'. The guy who would forward spam taking great pains to ensure headers were intact, to the appropriate abuse departments. I used to stand up like a 2 year old and yell 'I found it!!!', or at least the moral equivelent.
So, hi. My name is Jason and I'm a recovering spam nazi.
My real point is, of the remainder of easily spotted spam, its simple to create a couple rules that do a great job to catching the obvious rest. Granted I still get a couple spams a week, but thats not too bad when you consider the percentage that represents.
[1]
I also eliminated the 'catch all' spam sponge accounts for my domains.