Re: [LUG] Junk Mail

[Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 May 2014 09:45, Adrian Midgley <amidgley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It did hit a point where I took an active interest in reducing it by
adding to the troubles of those instigating it, and of course
increasing my efforts to persuade people not to host the spammers'
software of choice - Microsoft Windows.

More than a few linux systems are compromised and churning out spam. Perhaps not as many as Windows, but it's by no means a Windows disease.

To my own shame, one of my debian boxes a few years ago was compromised. (a misconfigured exim4 allowing relaying - entirely my fault) The first I knew about it was aa blacklist alert on that ip. I checked and it had been throwing out spam as fast as the upstream allowed for three days.

Embarrassing, and educating.

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