Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:58:49 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1009424745.aa16cc@mired.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spam Message-ID: <20011221225630.G83182-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <15396.489.261524.154119@guru.mired.org>
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Today Mike Meyer wrote:
> > mail# grep "User unknown" /var/log/maillog | wc -l
> > 138872
> >
> > That's in 22 hours and 14 minutes. We have just over 3,300
> > active email accounts.
>
> The question in this case is whether that's spam or a DoS attack
> disguised as spam?
Spam, as copies accepted to spamtrap addresses prove.
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Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst
jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc.
Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key.
PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD
enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null
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A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what
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