A new technique known as Sender Policy Framework (SPF for short) may be the tool to get rid of those bounces that appear to come from you but really come from either a virus or a SPAM twerp that has your address. SPF works by having a domain publish (in their public DNS) a list of valid mail …

I turned on OpenBSD's implementation of greylisting on the weekend, and have seen a noticable decline in SPAM received. Way to go OpenBSD team!

OpenBSD's SPAM filtering took another turn for the better with the addition of GreyListing. This is in -current and will be in 3.5, out on CD's soon.

I haven't noticed much of a drop, have you? It seems that even SPAM PERPs - the ultimate parasites of the networked world - follow Gilmore's Dictum, "The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it." In fact, on the same site, you'll find John Gilmore's grokmail, which he views …

The funniest thing I've seen in a long time is SPAM from obvious SPAM perps, offering to save me from the menace of SPAM! As if I hadn't already told everybody who'll listen to never buy anything from a SPAM perp, not even once, the very notion of trusting software from an unknown software house …