Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:36:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: Drew Derbyshire <avatar@2003-09.plus.kew.com> Subject: Re: Mail blocking Message-ID: <20030924213514.C3553@entwistle.sonicboom.org> In-Reply-To: <87d6dpeboo.fsf@strauser.com> References: <8765jhg7eo.fsf@strauser.com> <004001c38302$c8589e50$84cba8c0@kendra> <20030925040616.GC32280@wantadilla.lemis.com> <87d6dpeboo.fsf@strauser.com>
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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" <grog@FreeBSD.org> 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 >
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