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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. Believe it folks! These characters are persistent and once one finds you the rest follow. > > 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. > > If someone had a fixed IP address I could theoretically allow that one through my router filters but that's just begging for IP spoofing. > ********************************************************* > 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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