Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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. Brian Reid LUG Saloon Keeper