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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: An end to spam through Graphnet
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, J.D. Falk wrote: > On Aug 1, Geoff White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Let this be an object lesson to those of you out there who have > > > yet to upgrade: > > > the spammers will find you sooner or later. > > And once they've found you, they will keep on relaying through > you until you make it impossible for them to do so. Actually, they will, at least in some cases, keep trying indefinitely. All FDT's systems went anti-relay many months ago...yet: Aug 2 00:00:23 irc sendmail[18812]: Ruleset check_rcpt (<laibinis%[email protected]>) rejection: 571 <laibinis%[email protected]>... we do not relay - if you believe this to be an error, contact [email protected] Someone told me that a spam package was distributed that specifically targets IRC servers as relays. It would seem they don't bother updating the list, or their software is so popular that old versions stay in use. The system above blocks about 3,000 relay attempts per day, every day, since it got the anti-relay patches months ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <[email protected]> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ________Finger [email protected] for PGP public key_______
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