From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 31 02:29:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA15421 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA15416 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA21835; Sat, 31 May 1997 10:54:43 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199705310854.KAA21835@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: stopping mailspam without tears... To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:54:43 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: shovey@buffnet.net, jdfalk@cybernothing.org, isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4429.865063405@critter.dk.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 31, 97 09:23:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________