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12TH SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '98) - Dec 6-11, 1998 - Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
 
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 - AM Half-day Class -   TUESDAY
 

T8AM   SPAM - What You Can Do To Limit Your Intake! NEW!
Tina Darmohray, SystemExperts, Corp.; Mark Mellis, Mellis & Associates

Who should attend: System and network administrators who implement or maintain electronic mail for their site. Familiarity with sendmail configuration (specifically sendmail.cf) is required.

Unsolicited e-mail (or SPAM), is the plague of the Internet, costing unwilling participants ever-growing hours and dollars. Effectively filtering spam traffic from your site is a new administration task with newly emerging strategies and solutions. This half-day tutorial will cover the current strategies to fight unwanted bulk email.

After this tutorial, attendees will be able to incorporate and configure the new anti-spam rulesets into sendmail. They will understand the popular anti-spam measures on the Internet and they will have an overview of the vendor solutions and approaches.

Topics will include:

-    The sendmail anti-spam rulesets
-    Anti-spam measures on the Internet
*    The Real-time Blackhole List
*    Heuristics for filtering spam

-    Vendor offerings
 


 Tina Darmohray  (M6, T8)  is a network and security consultant with over a decade of experience in administration and programming of UNIX/TCP-based computers. She specializes in firewalls, Internet connections, Sendmail/DNS configurations and defensive intrusion management. Previously she was the lead for the UNIX support team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Tina was a founding board member of the System Administrators Guild, SAGE. She is also the editor of the popular SAGE short Topics booklet Job Descriptions for System Administrators, editor of "SAGE News and Features" for ;login:, and co-chaired the USENIX LISA IX Conference.

 Mark Mellis   is a consultant, specializing in system and network administration. Previously he was a senior engineer at Network Computing Devices where he was the technical lead of the UNIX and network administration group. He is a featured columnist in the USENIX Association magazine, ;login:.

 


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