Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:25:59 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Drew Derbyshire <avatar@2003-09.plus.kew.com> Subject: Re: Mail blocking Message-ID: <87d6dpeboo.fsf@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <20030925040616.GC32280@wantadilla.lemis.com> (Greg Lehey's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:36:16 %2B0930") References: <8765jhg7eo.fsf@strauser.com> <004001c38302$c8589e50$84cba8c0@kendra> <8765jhg7eo.fsf@strauser.com> <20030925040616.GC32280@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-09-25T04:06:16Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes: > One reason would be that the traffic is expensive. I'm on a 2 GB/month > plan, after which I pay significantly higher charges. I'm currently > getting 50 to 60 MB a day just of this mail crap. Yes, it all gets > dropped (just dropping .exe attachments does it), but that doesn't stop > the traffic. Exactly. I don't pay for metered utilization, but I *do* pay in lost usage of my relatively skinny connection. I received 8,000 (yep, that's right) 200K emails in one night. That was about 1.5GB of wasted data squeezing out my legitimate traffic. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/cm5c5sRg+Y0CpvERAlCAAJ9pk/0y7Po23kfcp7fGDpzP3wB9iACgnLuu AlUPzMXl0YJbOxX/UroyXS4= =G5SR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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