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Re: I get so much SPAM
we are aware of the growing problem of unwanted commercial email (UCE). At the same time the percentage of UCE has reached a point which is almost higher than that of non-UCE email. For a stats graph have a look at this web site. Therefore, we have taken quite a few measures to reduce the amount of UCE that our members receive:
1) we blacklist sender address on an hourly basis - based on the spam assassin results. Certainly quantity doesn't imply quality, but this table currently lists some 1235 entries of sender addresses which we don't accept.
2) we also blacklist sender servers which are being abused by spammers. This table currently contains 1209 entries and gets updated on a per case basis.
3) we cooperate with other ISPs to minimise UCE - this includes forwarding UCE to abuse addresses and SpamCop.
4) We are also participating in the blackhole abuse system.
5) we set up spamassassin which should allow our users to easily seperate UCE from their 'normal' email - instructions on how to do this can be found here.
6) we encourage our users to help reducing spam. Forwarding email to SpamCop at the moment seems to be a good thing to do. (since the above was written (2003), GreenNet has implemented a far more comprehensive anti-spam policy. In fact, although there are various commercial solutions out there, we are not aware of any ISP that currently does more to keep spam out. - 2005) Post Edited (03-07-03 13:29)