From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 21:36:26 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 AFEB716A4B3; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:36:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (node-423a3b1b.san.onnet.us.uu.net [66.58.59.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1F94402D; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (localhost.sonicboom.org [127.0.0.1]) h8P4a55a017698; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:36:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost)h8P4a54S017688; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:36:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) X-Authentication-Warning: entwistle.sonicboom.org: bri owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:36:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian To: Kirk Strauser In-Reply-To: <87d6dpeboo.fsf@strauser.com> Message-ID: <20030924213514.C3553@entwistle.sonicboom.org> References: <8765jhg7eo.fsf@strauser.com> <004001c38302$c8589e50$84cba8c0@kendra> <20030925040616.GC32280@wantadilla.lemis.com> <87d6dpeboo.fsf@strauser.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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 04:36:26 -0000 That greater message size is indeed one of the big negatives of this, that will hopefully lead to more efort against this kind of thing. Brian The path to a desireable destination is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are. On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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. > -- > Kirk Strauser >