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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! -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods () acm org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods () planix com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods () weird com>
-- Thank you; |--------------------------------| | Thinking is a learned process. | | ICANN member @large | | Gigabit over IP, ieee 802.17 | |--------------------------------| Henry R. Linneweh
Current thread:
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd), (continued)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) J Bacher (Aug 10)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Barry Shein (Aug 10)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Greg A. Woods (Aug 10)
- RE: surge in spam email (fwd) Roeland M.J. Meyer (Aug 10)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Shawn McMahon (Aug 11)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) J.D. Falk (Aug 11)
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- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) J.D. Falk (Aug 11)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Andrew McNamara (Aug 09)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Steven J. Sobol (Aug 09)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Brad (Aug 09)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Henry R. Linneweh (Aug 09)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Jim Mercer (Aug 09)
- Re: surge in spam email (fwd) Pim van Riezen (Aug 09)
- RE: surge in spam email (fwd) Greg A. Woods (Aug 10)