Better Living Through Thinking

Current Spam Levels

Mon, 17 Jan 2005

I get a lot of people linking to this page, mostly because of the "Having Fun With Spammers" entry (2 down). Welcome!

For the rest of you looking for ways to stop spam, I offer my own techniques here, which have worked extremely well for me and everyone else on my server. I don't think that what I've done here would work for all people, but anyone running their own Sendmail can do quite a bit to cut out all the trash.

My last entry was over 5 months ago and I'm happy to report that my spam level has stayed fairly low. Here's the histospam for the past few weeks:

20041210 =>  (4)
20041211 =>  (1)
20041212 =>  (1)
20041213 =>  (1)
20041214 => * (7)
20041215 => ** (11)
20041216 => ** (10)
20041217 =>  (2)
20041219 =>  (3)
20041220 =>  (4)
20041221 => * (6)
20041222 => * (5)
20041223 =>  (4)
20041224 =>  (3)
20041225 =>  (2)
20041226 =>  (4)
20041227 =>  (2)
20041228 =>  (4)
20041229 =>  (1)
20041230 =>  (4)
20041231 =>  (3)
20050101 =>  (0)
20050102 =>  (0)
20050103 =>  (4)
20050104 =>  (3)
20050105 => * (5)
20050106 =>  (2)
20050107 =>  (3)
20050108 =>  (3)
20050109 =>  (3)
20050110 => * (9)
20050111 => * (6)
20050112 => * (6)
20050113 =>  (4)
20050114 =>  (3)
20050115 => * (8)
20050116 => * (9)
20050117 =>  (1)

Still an occasional false pozzie, but when I'm only getting a small handful of spams getting through my system each day, I can live with that.