Local DCC 'server' and MS?

Ken Anderson ka at PACIFIC.NET
Wed Oct 15 17:31:28 IST 2003


We currently get almost 600k total incoming messages, split between 2
machines, half of which is spam. Just a few months ago it was 450k...
good grief is right!!!

We run dccd on ONE of the machines. The other one is set to query it
instead of the public servers.

Ken
Pacific.Net

Tony Finch wrote:

> Ken Anderson <ka at PACIFIC.NET> wrote:
>
>>If you get a lot of spam (as we do), you'll eventually get an email from
>>Vernon @ ryholite software asking you to stop hammering the public
>>servers and run your own! ;-).
>>
>>One note of caution. It's a memory hog(currently 264012 KB), but stable.
>
>
> Good grief! I'm inclined to run dccd, and I would do so on each of our
> mail filtering machines, but that memory profile means we'd need to
> upgrade... How much spam is "a lot"? tens of thousands per day? hundreds
> of thousands? millions? (We're near 100,000 per day.)
>
> Tony.
> --
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>
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