Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 08:46:06 +1000 (EST) From: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au> To: meljr@connet80.com (Mel Lester Jr.) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: We will mail 4 U Message-ID: <199711252246.IAA18515@spooky.eis.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971125102025.1969A-100000@connet80.com> from "Mel Lester Jr." at "Nov 25, 97 10:32:37 am"
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> Patrick, > > I agree that something has to be done. The implied threat at the end of > this particular piece of SPAM really disturbs me. Personally, I hate > SPAM and I am beginning to hate SPAMMERS to the point of loosing objectivity. > I have lost objectivity, I am looking for a sendmail ruleset the will only allow my home system to receive mail from the addresses I type into a list. >From an Austrialian ISP's point of view SAPM's are terrible, we get charged per MB for inbound traffic so SPAM's cost us real money. The only sure solution I have though of, is to replace or upgrade the SMTP protocol so that you can no longer forge headers and the true source is always identified. That would help a lot. - Ernie.
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