Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We have been using Postini for 2 years now, very well worth the $25 per month fee.... All the best from across the town. At 07:37 PM 11/27/2008, Brian Reid wrote: > From time to time over the last year the LUG has been shut down > because of an overload on my server computers, caused by too much > spam. In mid October there was a discussion of possible solutions > after a particularly nasty overload. There was a lot of good advice > offered. > >I decided to take the advice offered by Jeff Moore and buy a >Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall. I got it installed about 10 days >ago, and it took a week for all of the required DNS changes to >propagate around the world. So it's been fully operational for 4 or 5 days. > >It's amazing. The box is stopping 90,000 spams per day, and my >mailbox is pretty much free of spam. More relevant to the LUG, the >server computer that runs the LUG is also pretty much free of spam, >so it is sailing along with a load factor of about 0.1 and being >very responsive and reliable. > >I've just finished putting away the leftovers from Thanksgiving >dinner, and during the 12 hour interval that I've been away from the >computer, I got less than 5 spams in my mailbox. I think I am going >to like this newfound silence, and I know the servers already like it. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)