North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: An end to spam through Graphnet
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. > Can anyone elaborate a little more on the "one true" set of procedures > that one should take to prevent spammers from abusing ones resources. It varies depending on what your situation is, and how smart you expect your customers to be. > The current problem that I have is valid customers who are "on the road" > and want to sendmail through my SMTP server when they dial into > att or netcom, before their eudora's used to point their SMTP server > at me, that ain't happenin' after my spam attach so is there some work > around that they can use? The /best/ idea is to have them use a local SMTP server. If they can't or won't do that, there are a few recipes floating around that let you exempt messages from specific sources; I haven't investigated those much, but they're out there. ********************************************************* J.D. Falk voice: +1-415-482-2840 Supervisor, Network Operations fax: +1-415-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net See us at ISPCON '97, booth #501 "The People You Know. The People You Trust." *********************************************************
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