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Archive for the Tag ‘Linux’

January 23, 2007

Reducing Spam to Nearly Zero with PTR Record Filtering

Blocking spam is an arms race between spam detection and detection avoidance techniques. Lately spammers had the upper hand but the tide has turned with new PTR record blocking techniques. This is how implementing PTR record filtering has reduced our spam to nearly zero.
There are two general methods of detecting and blocking spam, by IP [...]

October 24, 2006

Experience with VMWare Server on RedHat Linux +screenshots!

Since my shiny new Dell servers with the Core 2 CPUs haven’t arrived yet I decided to take a spare server in the office and try out VMWare Server. VMWare server for Linux is very easy to install. The only way it could have been easier if it was drag & drop like OS X [...]