From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 22:12:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA22301 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:12:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA22296; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA17703; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:11:48 -0800 (PST) To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:54:56 PST." <199711260254.SAA06369@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:11:48 -0800 Message-ID: <17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > we have rejected 20 spam attempts in the last 16 hours. > this is a record....could we have a major push underway? 20? Hahahahaha! :-) Try turning on reverse DNS filtering and you'll find that this number goes WAAAY up. According to my stats just for time.cdrom.com, I've rejected 2203 spam attempts since 9am this morning. Yep, that's correct - approximately 2.8 spams rejected every minute. Jordan