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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: surge in spam email (fwd)
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote: > It's impossible to tell the difference between "legitimate" traffic and > unwanted traffic arriving from any mailer that's susceptible to theft of > service attacks, and if you want to block lots of spam then you have to > block all mail from such mailers. This is also the quickest and most > effective way to really get the attention of the admins who control such > mailers too, and in doing so put some pressure on them to fix their > configurations! And the quickest way is to subscribe to a list like the MAPS Relay Spam Stopper or ORBS. (Please, let's not discuss ORBS or MAPS in depth. We don't need another flamewar. Thanks.) -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, BOFH - President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor Linux Instructor, PC/LAN Program, Natl. Institute of Technology, Akron, OH [email protected] - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET
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