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To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: SPAM target 
Cc: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>,
        Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au>, hackers@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 May 1997 08:47:31 CDT."
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:36:06 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <3.0.32.19970503084731.00c08d2c@mixcom.com> "Jeffrey J. Mountin" writes:
: I saw one spammer keep hitting us from different relays, sat back, and
: decided that I'd saved myself a few hundred bounce mails.

We're *still* getting 65k packets a day from a well known spammer
because they can't configure their machines properly.  And it is
eating our link up!  1% of our link is now always used by this bozo,
which plays hell with our FTPs due to its bursty nature causing TCP
segment losses which requires retransmission :-(

Warner