you see my Spamstats for the time i run an own server for my domain.

The input consists mainly from cord@Wunder-Nett.org that is in existence since mid-1996, and a (tuned) catch all on cord.de.

• Unreadable is the stuff encoded as russian, chinese, korean, ...
• Backscatter are Bounces due to misused Mailadresses.
• Virusspam is the stuff ClamAV catches.
• Spam is recognized by bogofilter
• Dupes were Mails with the same Message-Id in a short time period.
• Ham are thode messages that survived the other filters.

In 05/2004 i had a big downtime due to broken Harddisk and/or cheap IDE-Cables (which was finally solved in 2006).

In 11/2004 i became Debian-Listmaster, and forwarded the listmaster-mails to my system.

In 08/2005 i stopped forwarding listmaster-Mail and the admin-mail from LUG-OWL and let them drop into a local Mailbox on the specific servers.

In 06/2006 The power supply of my server died, and HaJo had a fitting spare device, so i took it to the local hardware gods (C&M sorry, only Flash) and they put implanted it, they also replaced all Fans (6 of which 4 were stuck) and replaced the IDE-Cables. Now i even could switch on DMA without risking a crash. (Man, 3years of crippled server). As you see, the system is now able to accept even more spam.

In 12/2006 i added greylisting on my server. My 2nd MX currently doesn't do greylisting.


Management-summary: With massive filtering i can keep mail somewhat useable for me.

Hi.

We were notified that German DWN, and the Original DWN weren't sent out. Investigation showed that Diplomats (in German translation Diplomaten) matched the bad word 'Diploma', so it is dropped in our spambox.

I resent German DWN yesterday and the Original DWN some minutes ago.

sorry for the inconvinience.

We get regular requests from Gmail-Users that don't receive their own mails back, when they post something on a mailinglist to which they are subscribed.

So if this happens to you, first check if your mail shows up in our mailarchive.

If it appears there (wait some time that the archive can catch up) your mail has been successfully posted to the list, and your copy has also been send and is most likely accepted by Gmail. But Gmail seems to drop that mail internally (or sort it in a spamdropbox?) maybe because From and Receipient-address are the same. (We get two or three requests of that kind per week, and everytime we investigated, we found this is the case)

If it doesn't appear in the Mailarchive and your mail has been accepted by our mailserver murphy.debian.org, you most likely have lost against our Spamfiltering. (Did you know that ControlExtension matches the string Rolex?).

Then feel free to report to listmaster@lists.debian.org and provide as much info about your lost mail as possible, helpful would be:

• your IP
• the time you send (including Timezone / difference to GMT)
• the Message-Id
• your from-address and the to-address

Keep flamemailing.

Entgegen anderslautender Gerüchte ist dieses Blog nicht mein erstes. Nun wird sich vielleicht der ein andere wuselige Blogger in Wortklauberei versteigen und sich auf die Formulierung

... im eigenen Blog

zurückziehen, aber meine ersten Ergüsse in der Blogosphäre datieren aus einer Zeit als bloggen noch kein Hype war und auch noch nicht so hiess.

I sometimes find myself in a state that needs to write out what i feel or mean to a topic. So i decided to establish an own blog. And here it is.

I read for some time the Blogs of my friends and cow-orkers corona and wusel and both decided to use this nice Blogsoftware called Simple PHP Blog. It is very featureful, but the deciding thing is, that it doesn't need a Database running in the Background.

As this package isn't available from Debian yet, i made a package of it, and applied as Maintainer (see Debian-BTS #421513).

I will wait some days and will then upload the package. For now you can find it at http://debian.cord.de. The package is currently useable for stable, testing and unstable.