[ On Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:50:44 (+0100), Dennis Davis wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Idea to slow down spammers
>
> and upgrade my exim servers as the IP address 207.233.153.131 is
> *really* pissing me off. It is continually trying to send us email
> using an envelope sender in Wirehub's list of known spammers. This
> has been happening for the last few days and 207.233.153.131 just
> won't take NO for an answer. This isn't affecting our service, I'd
> just like to get back at the bastard.
You'd be better off to simply firewall/re-route that address, and
perhaps the inner block it belongs to (207.233.153.128/27) completely
into the void at your network border(s).
Response rate limiting can only go so far to stopping idiots with broken
software (in this case it's apparently Internet Anywhere Mail Server Version:
4.2.4. Build: 2019 by True North Software, Inc.), regardless of their
intent.
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Greg A. Woods
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