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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Any RBLs that you recommend?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jerry Benton<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 06, 2015 1:50 PM<br><b>To:</b> MailScanner Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Spam question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Use RBLs at the MTA level<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Use greylisting<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>-<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Jerry Benton<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.mailborder.com">www.mailborder.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Aug 6, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Sean M. Schipper <<a href="mailto:sean.m.schipper@lawrence.edu">sean.m.schipper@lawrence.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Since last November I’ve been getting inundated with spam (yesterday just under 7,000 just in the am) from coming from 3 or 4 IP addresses on the same subnet in the morning starting like clockwork just after 9am. Then sometimes I’ll get a similar rush of spam in the afternoon coming from a separate IP range. Countries of origin include US and Bulgaria mostly but also have come from Brasil, Romania and S. Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I’ve been able to train MailScanner to correctly identify these as spam since the content is very similar -- tons of links to websites with .php extensions. Examples of subject lines: Situations for 2015 that forgive your Student-Loan, 12 month MBA programs, accelerated...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>To cut down on the processing/traffic on my server I’ve been just blacklisting these IP subnets at smtp with a deny bounce message. Does anyone have any other suggestions on actions I can take to rid myself of this annoying daily routine? Does anyone else have similar battle stories like this?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks for any suggestions on this. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sean<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><br>--<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>MailScanner mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#954F72'>mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><a href="http://lists.mailscanner.info/listinfo/mailscanner"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#954F72'>http://lists.mailscanner.info/listinfo/mailscanner</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>