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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:58:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1009424745.aa16cc@mired.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spam 
Message-ID:  <20011221225630.G83182-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
In-Reply-To: <15396.489.261524.154119@guru.mired.org>

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Today Mike Meyer wrote:

> > mail# grep "User unknown" /var/log/maillog | wc -l
> >   138872
> >
> > That's in 22 hours and 14 minutes.  We have just over 3,300
> > active email accounts.
>
> The question in this case is whether that's spam or a DoS attack
> disguised as spam?

Spam, as copies accepted to spamtrap addresses prove.


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