From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 21:26:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA8D16A4B3; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BD543FF3; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8P4Q5Gf094358; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:26:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <8765jhg7eo.fsf@strauser.com> <004001c38302$c8589e50$84cba8c0@kendra> <8765jhg7eo.fsf@strauser.com> <20030925040616.GC32280@wantadilla.lemis.com> From: Kirk Strauser Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:25:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030925040616.GC32280@wantadilla.lemis.com> (Greg Lehey's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:36:16 +0930") Message-ID: <87d6dpeboo.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org cc: Drew Derbyshire Subject: Re: Mail blocking X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 04:26:17 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-09-25T04:06:16Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: > One reason would be that the traffic is expensive. I'm on a 2 GB/month > plan, after which I pay significantly higher charges. I'm currently > getting 50 to 60 MB a day just of this mail crap. Yes, it all gets > dropped (just dropping .exe attachments does it), but that doesn't stop > the traffic. Exactly. I don't pay for metered utilization, but I *do* pay in lost usage of my relatively skinny connection. I received 8,000 (yep, that's right) 200K emails in one night. That was about 1.5GB of wasted data squeezing out my legitimate traffic. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/cm5c5sRg+Y0CpvERAlCAAJ9pk/0y7Po23kfcp7fGDpzP3wB9iACgnLuu AlUPzMXl0YJbOxX/UroyXS4= =G5SR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--