Re: [Exim] off the topic: blackhole servers down?

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Author: Mike Meredith
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] off the topic: blackhole servers down?
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 08:36, Konrad Michels wrote:
> Also getting timeouts to osirusoft this morning - wonder what's up .
> . . or down, as the case may be!


Probably a denial of service attack ... that's been the explanation
before, and it makes sense seeing as the spammers are all getting loads
more spam through whilst osirusoft isn't working.

> On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 08:21, Thomas Kinghorn wrote:
> > Does anyone have a good alternative to osirusoft?


Run your own ... look on sourceforge for spfilter (yes it's overkill for
a domain with just a few users).

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