Christian Schmidt wrote:
>Hallo Steve,
>
>Steve Lamb, 13.10.2005 (d.m.y):
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>
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>>Christian Schmidt wrote:
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>>>Erm...
>>>
>>>
>>>IMO there are slight but important differences between "blocking" and
>>>"filtering".
>>>
>>>
>> Is there? What if he is doing SMTP time blocking after running it
>>through a filter?
>>
>>
>
>What I wanted to put the focus on is that Marc P. most probably does not
>filter a million messages per day by feeding them through SpamAssassin
>and/or his virus scanner.
>...because he blocks a lot of these messages "earlier in the chain".
>
>Gruss,
>Christian
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>
>
Yes - that is true. In fact I manage to block almost 90% of messages
before hitting Spam Assassin and I've been working on tricks to bypass
Ham around SA as well. So - that's how I can process a million atempted
messages a day with a $2000 computer.
BTW - for those of you buying hardwate - Dual Core Athlon 64 X2 with 4
gigs of ram makes a fine Exim/SpamAssassin box. You get 2 64 bit
processors on one chip that is just plain fast.
--
Marc Perkel - marc@???
Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com
My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com
