Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:25:11 -0400 (EDT) From: john hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A quick note to those without DNS resolvable mail hosts. Message-ID: <199709060225.WAA03036@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> In-Reply-To: <26041.873509860@time.cdrom.com> References: <26041.873509860@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > In order to combat the absolute flood of spam which has been coming > into my mailbox lately, I've gone to more aggressive sendmail filtering > which: I'll note that at least one reason for the absolute flood is all the mail->news gateways that the lists get piped into. My ISP is getting FreeBSD list messages in at least five separate "local" hierarchies, and I'm sure they're missing some. That's a lot of @ signs for the spammers to latch onto. --jh -- John Hood cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us Predictably, they all eventually wandered away, rubbing their bruises and brushing mud out of their hair. Some went off to work for the ESA, launching much smaller rockets into low orbits, while others elected to sit on their front porches drinking Jim Beam from the bottle and launching bottle rockets from the empties. [Jordan Hubbard]
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