I still get junk phone calls, but the phone system is reasonably usable today. we're headed for walled gardens.Įric is one of the authors of the SMTP RFC and the developer of Sendmail. Paul is the author of several RFCs and founded MAPS (the mail abuse prevention system), known for its real-time blackhole list.Įvery potential smtp improvement or replacement that could do anything toĪctually stop spam, has been systematically patented. There are areas where we're losing, namely in the botnet department.Īs long as so many people run insecure systems, we are going to haveīotnets, and they will deliver spam that's hard to deal with except There are a number of techniques not yet tried. This doesn't rely on draconian blacklists, though some people There are a number of fairly decently workingįiltering systems, though a number of them have concerns about false Spammers have won and there aren't any solutions in sight. ![]() It seems to me that we're losing the battle. ![]() I asked them specifically if we're losing the war on spam.īrad is Chairman of the Board, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). I emailed a group of people who have been around the Internet a long time to see what they thought of the future of email. I opened Skype today for the first time in a while and I had two XXX messages in an hour, giving a new meaning to "Call Girl." Nonetheless, let's stay focused on email. Trackback and comment spam can hammer a blog server and they are a common reason why bloggers disable such features. Of course, today, spam is not limited to email. System administrators are having to spend more time on the problem and they need more servers and bandwidth to deal with the increasing flow of spam. A lot of spam makes its way past the filters. Individual users might not be seeing the increase because spam-blocking software mitigates the problem to a degree. 2788 viruses and other malware (most caught by ClamAV).32402 messages rejected due to SpamAssassin score of 10 or greater.31935 messages rejected due to invalid recipient.224722 connections rejected by IP address hits on black lists.282414 connections rejected due to bad SMTP HELO syntax.Here's the breakdown on how we reject messages: 49194 messages accepted (I think this is actually a little high due to a configuration problem with our Zimbra server.). ![]() 829,890 SMTP connections made to our two gateway mail servers.These numbers represent a one-week snapshot (last Monday 2/26 to Sunday 3/4.) Here are the amazing stats that Bob shared with me. The bottom line, according to Bob Amen, Director of Systems Engineering at O'Reilly, nearly 95% of ALL incoming messages are spam. This is, of course, before the message is delivered to an O'Reilly user, who may apply additional spam filters in their email program. I'd like to see how we compare to other organizations.Īll of our incoming email goes through one of two gateways, which route mail to servers that decide to accept or reject the message. Let's first try to quantify the problem using O'Reilly's servers as an example. Was the situation as bad as I thought it might be? In short, the answer is yes, which only makes me wonder why more people aren't talking about it. When I learned how much spam was hitting our servers at O'Reilly, I decided to ask several long-time Internet luminaries these questions. Another War We're Not Winning: Us vs SpamĪre we losing the war on spam? Is the war on spam a war we can win? Is there any reason for hope?
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