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Re: surge in spam email (fwd)

  • From: Henry R. Linneweh
  • Date: Thu Aug 10 00:35:55 2000 
If you respond to a harris poll email they never stop sending you
polls, even when you request them to cease.

"Greg A. Woods" wrote:

> [ On Wednesday, August 9, 2000 at 11:08:02 (-0400), David Charlap wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: surge in spam email (fwd)
> >
> > Just keep in mind that your use of ORBS may result in blocking a large
> > amount of legitimate traffic as well as spam.
>
> 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!
>
> --
>                                                         Greg A. Woods
>
> +1 416 218-0098      VE3TCP      <[email protected]>      <robohack!woods>
> Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; Secrets of the Weird <[email protected]>

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