[HCRA] Less SPAM???

Wed, 5 May 2004 17:54:01 -0400

Greetings!

My understanding is that the contractor that handles the ARRL E-Mail
Forwarding Service has made some changes to reduce spam. Here's what I
know, by way of an answer from one of our managers to a member:

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The vendor for the arrl.net system has taken some steps to help stem the
flow of messages through the system. Most specific to your question is
that they've recently updated their blacklists of "bad" domains. I'm
glad to know that its working to some degree. 

Unfortunately, the fight against spam is on-going and the steps taken
last week are likely to have a short term impact but will be less and
less effective as time goes on and the spammers figure out ways to beat
whatever process honest ISPs are using. And I wish I could give tell you
that we've inflicted massive amounts of pain on the spammer and their
ISPs, but that isn't the case because you can't really find the spammers
and identify them. That's one of the problems with the whole situation,
they're very good at what they do.
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BTW, if you're bothered by spam, I highly recommend the Cloudmark
Spamnet http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/ product, which may
not work on all e-mail clients (it will not work on Outlook versions
earlier than Outlook 2000, for example). You can try this out for a bit,
and it costs about $40/year to subscribe.

I'm using it at HQ where I typically was receiving 125-150 spam messages
(and growing) per day. It gets 'em all, and the only time it got
something I didn't want it to was when it grabbed up a message I'd sent
myself from home! It also lets you add new spam that it may not
recognize immediately so that it will then grab those too when they show
up again. 

73, Rick N1RL
(ARRL Senior News Editor)

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Kevin F. Berrien
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 3:57 PM
To: Steve, KB1GHC; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCRA] Less SPAM???

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I would think going from 100 to 2-3 spam it'd have to be a filter.  We 
saw such results when I installed our present SPAM filters at work. Good

filtering requires multiple methods of filtering, and cross 
referencing.  Hopefully they're not over-filtering.  Many of the filters

available walk a very fine line between filtering, and over filtering.  
I'd keep an eye out for missing emails just in case, at least for a
while.

Kevin
N1VMJ

    This is strange but good,

>I usually get about 100 spam e-mail's a day. In the last 2 days or so,
it
>has dropped to about 2-3 emails a day, and I've heard other @arrl.net
users
>saying the same thing.
>  
>

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