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Date:      Sat, 31 May 1997 09:23:25 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stopping mailspam without tears... 
Message-ID:  <4429.865063405@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 May 1997 20:18:29 EDT." <Pine.BSI.3.95.970530201753.8709B-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> 

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In message <Pine.BSI.3.95.970530201753.8709B-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>, Ste
ve writes:
>
>I just used smap with the security patches that issue an SMTP 554 error as
>soon as the from site is identified as a spam only site.

This I belive is not a good solution.  They will just move on to the 
next sucker mail-relay on their list.

I accept the email and fail to deliver it.  That is more efficient,
they think they have sent it, and nobody gets bothered by it.

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Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
whois: [PHK]                | phk@tfs.com           TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.



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