From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932136AbWFMPTy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:19:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932137AbWFMPTy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:19:54 -0400 Received: from 8.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.8]:39555 "EHLO darwin.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932136AbWFMPTx (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:19:53 -0400 Message-ID: <448ED798.2080706@perkel.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:19:52 -0700 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) References: <200606130300.k5D302rc004233@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1150189506.11159.93.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20060613104557.GA13597@merlin.emma.line.org> <1150201475.12423.12.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060613124944.GA16171@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20060613124944.GA16171@merlin.emma.line.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Here's a cheap trick that I use to get rid of a lot of spam. What I do is set my highest MX record to a nonworking IP address. Spammers often start at the highest MX rather than the lowest figuring the highest has less spam filtering. And the spammers never retry. IO get rid of about 120,000 spams a day with this trick.