From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 21 19:59: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781C237B405 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fBM3wn383301; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:58:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:58:49 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Mike Meyer Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spam In-Reply-To: <15396.489.261524.154119@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <20011221225630.G83182-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message