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Subject: Re: HOTMAIL.COM, JUNO.COM, etc.... 
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:31:31 -0400
From: Dennis Rockwell <dennis@bbn.com>
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On 30 Jul, spork wrote:

> The thing that confuses me about the ton of spam I get from at&t,
> earthlink, etc. is the fact that with all the resources these people have,
> they cannot hack sendmail in such a way that it refuses to accept more
> than "x" number of messages in "x" number of minutes from one dialup
> node...

It's probably not lots of messages, it's one message with
lots of recipients.  The addresses are in the envelope, not
in the message, so they're just "RCPT TO:<>" lines in the
conversation.

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