Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 18:51:49 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au (Adrian Chadd) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf patch #2.. Message-ID: <199705041651.SAA07543@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970505002548.2439A-100000@obiwan.psinet.net.au> from Adrian Chadd at "May 5, 97 00:29:23 am"
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In reply to Adrian Chadd who wrote:
> 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? :)
Will do :)
>
> > 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. :)
Well, yes, but most of then are so damn persistent that they just try
harder when they get a reject, when not we have them belive their
thing does it stuff :), that buys us time to get the sucker nailed
on the village gate :)
> How bout we provide both options? :)
No objections from me :)
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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