There are ongoing concerns about spam.<br><br>There's a lot of spam on the net, and some of our public facing services such as mailing lists and ticket systems get an additional amount.<br><br>Here are some recent stats from the dedicated spam filter we have.<br>
<br>As you see we reject far more mail than we accept or forward. 1,261 per hour or about one every three seconds.<br><br>We are taking additional steps to ban specific addresses which appear to be repeat offenders.<br><br>
There isn't a perfect solution. I also have some cases this week of OLPC folks' (not at 1cc) mails being eaten by the spam filter, and we have adjusted the anti spam appliance settings accordingly.<br><br>Thanks for your understanding and patience.<br>
<br>If you run windows, please make sure your firewall and antivirus are up to date. Linux folks please close unnecessary ports and services on your own workstations and laptops. Please send a ticket to sysadmin if you have questions or would like some help on this.<br>
<br>Using a client such as thunderbird can provide an additional layer of spam protection and filtering.<br><br>--HH.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Michail Bletsas</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbletsas@laptop.org">mbletsas@laptop.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM<br>Subject: spam filter statistics<br>To: <a href="mailto:henry@laptop.org">henry@laptop.org</a><br><br><br>
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