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A dial-up customer complained about bounced messages from Sprynet. I think their explanation may be of interest to Mr. Dean "Spam Costs Next to Nothing" Anderson and a few others. Note that sprynet runs four mail servers round-robin. -----Original Message----- From: Postmaster of Sprynet/Interserv <[email protected]> To: sysadmin <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 8:44 PM Subject: Re: smtp connection difficulties >we had a massive spam attack today. sorry for any inconvience > >On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, sysadmin wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:14:54 -0400 >> From: sysadmin <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: smtp connection difficulties >> >> Hi, >> >> We are having great difficulty connecting to port 25 of your mail servers. >> We are usually getting 'connection refused' messages. Our mail server is >> mail.webkorner.com (207.53.76.15) and has all proper dns entries, including >> reverse dns. Are you having any system difficulties? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Matt Sommer >> Sysadmin >> >> >> > |