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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:04:07 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: major push by spammers? 
Message-ID:  <14865.880527847@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:11:48 PST." <17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com> 

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote in message ID
<17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com>:
> Try turning on reverse DNS filtering and you'll find that this number
> goes WAAAY up.  According to my stats just for time.cdrom.com, I've
> rejected 2203 spam attempts since 9am this morning.  Yep, that's
> correct - approximately 2.8 spams rejected every minute.

Are you sending the temp fail return code? If so, then a lot of them
will be repeat sends of the same spam.

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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