jellico.com's
E-mail spam filtering
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Email spam is offensive. It clutters up our mailboxes with promises to make us rich beyond our wildest dreams, keep us younger, make us more attractive, among other things that I can't mention on a G rated web site!
Our members do not like getting dozens (if not hundreds) of spam e-mail in their mailboxes which is what was happening before jellico.com implemented their Spam Filtering. Since then, the amount of spam has been greatly reduced.
Spam FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):
- What is spam?
- Spam (also known as UCE - Unsolicited Commercial Email) is the attempt to sell something, defraud someone, or to push the sender's point-of-view by sending email that the recipient did not ask for. It has become so prevalent that many folks now recieve much more spam email than legitimate email in their mailboxes.
- What is jellico.com doing about Spam email sent to our members?
- jellico.com uses Spamassassin to reduce the amount of spam you receive in your mailbox. We also use a few of the spam filtering blacklists available on the Internet to screen email as it comes into our system. These lists are created by gathering together the IP addresses of mail servers that spammers have been known to use in the past to send out spam. Also email servers that are open relays can get put on the blacklists. Open relays are mail servers that are not secure: anyone can hijack these mail servers and use them to send out as much spam as they want.
When email comes into our system, our mail server first scans it with Spamassassin, then checks to see if the IP address the email came from is blacklisted on any of the spam lists that we use. If it is not, the email is sent on to your mailbox. If it is blacklisted, it is bounced back to their sender with an explanation of why it was returned and a link to the particular blacklist that the IP address is listed with.
- What is a Blacklist?
- A Blacklist is a database of known internet addresses (or IP's) used by persons or companies sending spam. Various ISP's and bandwidth providers subscribe to these blacklist databases in order to filter out spam sent across their network or to their subscribers.
- What blacklists are jellico.com currently using:
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- Spamcop:
- list.dsbl.org and multihop.dsbl.org: http://dsbl.org/main
- spamhaus.org: http://www.spamhaus.org
- ordb.org: http://www.ordb.org
- blitzed.org: http://www.blitzed.org
- The Mail Abuse Prevention System's Relay Spam Stopper List http://work-rss.mail-abuse.org/rss/
- My friend (mother, brother, etc.) says their emails to me are bouncing! What can I do?
- Ask them to look carefully at the bounced message that are getting. If it says that the email was blocked, then gives the name of one of the spam blacklists, then it means that their mail server is on a blacklist. There's nothing jellico.com can do about it. Your friend needs to contact his Internet Service Provider and ask them to take whatever steps are necessary to get OFF of the blacklist. All of these blacklists have ways to get off of them once the problems that got them blacklisted in the first place are corrected.
If you have any questions egarding jellico.com,Inc.'s email filtering policies, call our office or send email to: service@jellico.com
Links to information about SPAM
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