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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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