From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 23:02:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA24761 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA24749; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:02:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA15502; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:32:14 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971126173214.61195@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:32:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? References: <199711260254.SAA06369@hub.freebsd.org> <17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 10:11:48PM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 10:11:48PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> 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. Wow. You must have annoyed somebody :-) How are you recognizing the spammers? Greg