Re: Spam prevention as security policy (was: Re: FWTK and smap/smapd)

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas () worldgatein net>]

On 18/07/02 08:54 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
> Devdas Bhagat <devdas () worldgatein net> wrote:
> > Message-ID: <20020718115002.B56864 () rivendell worldgatein net>
> [snip]
> > (Hey, Spam is just unwanted crap at the application level, so you are on
> > topic -- Application proxies do come under firewalls).
>
> Probably meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but the IT Director where I
Actually no. I am very serious (yes, I treat Nimda/code red the same as
spam).

> work does indeed regard spam prevention measures as part of the
> corporation's security policy.  Which may not be all that far-fetched a
It is part of my ISPs policy too. Plus, it helps in setting up a much
stonger security implementation than an oridinary packet filtering
firewall.

<snip>
> pattern of this (returns are all to role accounts published on our web
> sites), I rather suspect that a spammer that scraped our sites got
Or someone who had your address in their addressbook.

Devdas Bhagat
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