SPAM is Relentless and Practically Impossible to Get Rid of

I though by implementing some blackhole lists that spam would significantly reduce. Technically it has from several hundred to several dozen, but wow, spam is relentless. Spam still finds it way to my inbox, no matter how well trained Thunderbird is.  I currently have no 100% solution, and its driving me crazy. I usually figure things out, but to eliminate 100% of spam is proving to be an unsurmountable task. I mark new spam messages every day, but they still find there way in.

Simply wow.

Sendmail Blackhole List - Eliminate Most Spam

To configure sendmail to automatically bounce most spam use one of the countless blackhole lists that are readily available, and consistently maintained:

http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=97

An excellent blackhole list is maintained by njabl.org. Use is relatively straight forward. Add the following line to the end of your sendmail.mc file, then recompile the sendmail configuration file.

FEATURE(dnsbl,`combined.njabl.org',`Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://njabl.org/lookup?$&{client_addr}')

For more detailed information on how to use this blackhole list you can visit their website directly:

http://njabl.org/use.html

I used to get well over 150 spam messages per day. Now I maybe get 5 total