spam as an operational issue

["Matt Sommer" <cache22 () webkorner com>]

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