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spam as an operational issue
From: "Matt Sommer" <cache22 () webkorner com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:37:46 -0400
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 <postman () interserv net> To: sysadmin <sysadmin.h8s.spam () webkorner com> Cc: postmaster () sprynet com <postmaster () sprynet com> 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 <sysadmin.h8s.spam () webkorner com> To: postmaster () sprynet com 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
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