From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 31 19:29:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00382 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 19:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obiwan.psinet.net.au (obiwan.psinet.net.au [203.19.28.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00377 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 19:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.psinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA07596; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:10:42 +0800 (WST) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:10:42 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stopping mailspam without tears... In-Reply-To: <4773.865074170@critter.dk.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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. > > Well, it's cheap compared to many other things :-) > > We caught 670 receipients just this night... And this is only for two > of our machines so far... That isn't a solution for everyone you know. :-) I like the idea of accepting / killing the email, that is what I did for a long time with procmail. Thing is, it might be good in places where you aren't volume charged an arm and a leg for traffic. How many mb of traffic would you have saved by plain rejecting the email rather than accepting / /dev/null'ing it? Now .. times the number of mb by 19c :) Usefully big ISPs in Australia PAY for that crap. :-) Adrian