LOPSA-Madison: Extreme Spam Reduction: "The guns... they've stopped."

2007-09-06 18:00
2007-09-06 21:00
US/Central
NOTICE: Due to a variety of events, we had to move the time to the first Thursday of the month! Please change your calendars.

When:Thursday, September 6, 2007
7:00 PM
 
Where:TDS Telecom, City Center West
RM 2510
525 Junction Road
Madison, WI 53717
[Park in the ramp in visitor stalls on the first level or on the top floor. Enter the building near the front fountain in the North Tower, which is opposite the Quizno's and not facing Junction Rd.]

The guns... they've stopped: Extreme Spam Reduction

Jeff Ballard, University of Wisconsin Computer Aided Engineering
David Parter,University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department

"The guns... they've stopped." That is what one of our users said after we improved our anti-spam configuration.

The UW College of Engineering and Computer Sciences Departments have drastically reduced the amount of spam. This not only pleases users, but has significantly reduced the load on mail servers, mail gateways, and spam assassin servers. We have done this through a method of demerits and aggressive greylisting, implemented using the mailfromd package.

We will describe our configuration, lessons learned, and some "gotchas". We expect everyone else to chime in for questions, answers, and discussion.

Location
TDS Telecom, CIty Center West
525 Junction Road
RM 2510
Madison, WI, 53717
United States
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