Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 00:29:23 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au> To: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf patch #2.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970505002548.2439A-100000@obiwan.psinet.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199705041640.SAA06021@sos.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, 4 May 1997, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > Anyone want to review this stuff at all? > > Yep! > Yay :) Just put up with my (small) oversights ok? :) > I think that instead of bouncing/rejecting the mail form "unwanted parties" > we should just drop it on the floor, that way they think the mail got > delivered and the suckers are ?ucked for a while :) > :) Thing is, spam-rejection is a nice bandwidth-saver.. and there are a lot of places where bandwidth is expensive (eg Australia). Blocking it before the mail is sent would save a lot of money, currently I'm doing the procmail-filtering-on-local-mail thing which does exactly what you're suggesting. Its not saving us any bandwidth, and personally I would love to see the spammers face when one day his spam was rejected everywhere and he saw all of the SMTP rejects. :) How bout we provide both options? :) Adrian.
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