Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:10:42 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stopping mailspam without tears... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970601100812.7579B-100000@obiwan.psinet.net.au> In-Reply-To: <4773.865074170@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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> >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
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