From: Richard B. 

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:33:28 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>   We'll still have to get together with JaneL some time when you're in
>town.

I'm bringing my tech up next time so we'll probably be busy but the
following trip I can make some extra time.  We should be able to at least
get together for lunch.  Are you downtown?

> I had this pretty well automated with little time spent on spam
>each day (less than 10 minutes per day on a total msg volume of around
>150K).  Spam is a trickle and even less now perhaps because of the MS
>blizzard of suits.

I'm going to work on it quite a bit this weekend and I hope to come close
to that 10 minutes/day number.  I am tired of dealing with it so much.

>  The amount of computing and bandwidth resources continues to rise because
>of total spam volume,  but the leak rate has remained constant since we
>added DNSBLs and text filtering.  Text filtering alone has about 39,000
>rules and we update them via  a subscription.

I do text filtering and block a large percentage of it but no near enough. 
Hopefully by Monday things will be more under control.

- Richard

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