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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Distributed Dictonary email slam
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Matt Hess wrote: > source hosts.. Now being as we are a secondary mx I'm dropping their record > out of our email system as I write this, however, I am curious if other have > gone through or are currently going through something of this magnitude (12K > spam/dictionary msgs per hour destined to one domain and that's just what is You want to keep a list of valid accounts on the secondary so you can refuse mail for non-existing accounts on the secondary too. If you don't care about yourself -- relize that if, say, all of these mails have a return address forged from the same domain, you will be DOSing THAT site with the bounce messages. This is enough for some people to block mail from you. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [email protected] -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/
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