Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:54:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: shovey@buffnet.net, jdfalk@cybernothing.org, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stopping mailspam without tears... Message-ID: <199705310854.KAA21835@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <4429.865063405@critter.dk.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 31, 97 09:23:06 am
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> >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. so you are spending your resources (incoming bw, temporary storage) for doing a service to the community. This is very nice of you, it's just that some people aren't so nice or simply cannot afford it. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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