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Re: Who Are The Good Guys?

  • From: Geoff White
  • Date: Wed May 14 15:56:41 1997 
On Tue, 13 May 1997, David Stoddard wrote:

> 
> 	In the war against spam, its getting harder to figure out who
> 	the good guys are.  Last weekend, we had an incident where a server
> 	called pure.fiber.net was relaying thousands of spam messages off
> 	one of our mail servers.  While we have filters in place to block
> 	the obvious spammers (cyberpromo and others), we don't learn about
> 	new ones until they cross the line (or we get them from Paul's
> 	site at http://www.vix.com/spam -- thanks Paul!).

<snip>

Indeed things are getting strange, look at this letter I got in my mailbox
this morning...

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