Re: [Exim] Columbian Spammer

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Author: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Columbian Spammer
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:21:44PM +0000, will wrote:
> It was about 2 lines of IPTables in a 'firewall' script started with the
> init scripts. I just used '-j DROP', no point in politely informing the
> spammers program that the connection had failed and that is should retry ;-)


You could, of course, have achieved the same effect by just pulling the
uplink out of the back of your mailserver.

Probably would have achieved the same effect.

MBM (hates people who drop packets rather than simulating closed ports, makes
     it really hard to debug whose network is the problem)


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Matthew Byng-Maddick         <mbm@???>           http://colondot.net/