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Re: surge in spam email (fwd)


From: "Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh () concentric net>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:33:03 -0700


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!

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                                                        Greg A. Woods

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Planix, Inc. <woods () planix com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods () weird com>

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