Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/27

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Subject: [Leica] Report from LUG Central in Palo Alto, California
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Thu Nov 27 19:37:19 2008

>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


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