From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 31 03:26:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA17376 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 03:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wlk.com (news.wlk.com [192.86.83.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA17371 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 03:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SMTPdaemon by wlk.com (smail3.2) with SMTPL id m0wXlMT-0009s8C; Sat, 31 May 1997 05:26:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04775; Sat, 31 May 1997 12:22:50 +0200 (CEST) To: Luigi Rizzo cc: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), shovey@buffnet.net, jdfalk@cybernothing.org, isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: stopping mailspam without tears... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 May 1997 10:54:43 +0200." <199705310854.KAA21835@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 12:22:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4773.865074170@critter.dk.tfs.com> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.