Re: [EXIM] some more details about spam

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Author: hamster
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To: Tabor J. Wells
CC: hamster, exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] some more details about spam
Tabor J. Wells wrote....
> On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 12:39:43PM +0000,
> hamster@??? <hamster@???> is thought to have said:
>
> > > sometimes it's not the spam that's the killer, it's the bounce messages from N
> > > * 100000 (yes 10^5) recipients that fail to get through.
> >
> > The best solution I've found to that at the moment is the :blackhole: directive

[..]
> And even that isn't enough on occasion since it accepts the article before
> blackholing it. Wait until you get 10+ messages per second being returned
> from AOL's dozens of mail servers addressed to a domain you host because
> that domain was forged in a massive spam to AOL. We call it "smurf
> spamming".


Been there, just not with that sort of volume *sigh*, spammers, can't
live with 'em and it's still illegal to tacnuke 'em.

    Mark


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