Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:32:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? Message-ID: <19971126173214.61195@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 10:11:48PM -0800 References: <199711260254.SAA06369@hub.freebsd.org> <17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com>
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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
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