We put the 'cuda at our border instead of just the Listserv server
itself and it greatly reduced the amount of spam that was being sent to
the lists from external.

  Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:LSTSRV-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Anne Toal
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:56 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: A Listserv behind a spam firewall
> 
> We recently put up a Barracuda spam firewall and I would like to know
if
> anyone out there has compiled best practices for running a Listserv in
> that
> way.
> 
> Yes, I know the Listserv has anti-spam protection. However on lists
that
> are
> set up to send all posts to a moderator, it appears to ignore whether
> the
> message is spam and it sends the message approval requests anyway. I
> would
> like to use the Barracuda to stop those as well.
> 
> The Barracuda can suppress daily spam summary messages, so we wouldn't
> have
> to worry about a daily summary message going to the members of all the
> lists. It can also send the daily spam summary messages to a specific
> address. Does anyone have experience with either configuration? How
well
> did
> it work?
> 
> Does anyone have any methods that don't involve using an external
> antispam
> firewall to stop these unwanted approval requests full of spam?
> 
> -aht