Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 12:22:50 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), shovey@buffnet.net, jdfalk@cybernothing.org, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stopping mailspam without tears... Message-ID: <4773.865074170@critter.dk.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 May 1997 10:54:43 %2B0200." <199705310854.KAA21835@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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In message <199705310854.KAA21835@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >> >I just used smap with the security patches that issue an SMTP 554 error as >> >soon as the from site is identified as a spam only site. >> >> This I belive is not a good solution. They will just move on to the >> next sucker mail-relay on their list. >> >> I accept the email and fail to deliver it. That is more efficient, >> they think they have sent it, and nobody gets bothered by it. > >so you are spending your resources (incoming bw, temporary storage) for >doing a service to the community. This is very nice of you, it's just >that some people aren't so nice or simply cannot afford it. Well, it's cheap compared to many other things :-) We caught 670 receipients just this night... And this is only for two of our machines so far... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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