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RE: Stealth Blocking
From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:27:50 -0700
From: Steve Sobol [mailto:sjsobol () NorthShoreTechnologies net] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:51 PM Shawn McMahon wrote:TCP rate-limiting on outbound traffic to *:25 would alsobe extremelyeffective, particularly on unclassified customer traffic,and without theheavy-handed nature of denying all dial-up traffic.Rate-limiting doesn'tinterfere with low-volume legitimate mail, but it reallycramps spam.It interferes heavily with transmission of large files viaemail, though,and this *IS* a valid use of service.The transmission of large files is not a valid use of email.
Is too... I send large documents regularly, via email. I just sent a 125 page word doc, with about 20 embedded Visio drawings and a bunch of embedded Excel spreadsheets. It was huge. Most of the recipients are on dialups with Win98. How else do you expect me to get it to them ... FTP? Most of them are NOT computer jocks.
Current thread:
- Re: Stealth Blocking, (continued)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Dave Rand (May 24)
- RE: Stealth Blocking Roeland Meyer (May 24)
- RE: Stealth Blocking Jason Slagle (May 24)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Shawn McMahon (May 25)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Jason Slagle (May 25)
- RE: Stealth Blocking Jason Slagle (May 24)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Richard A. Steenbergen (May 24)
- RE: Stealth Blocking Roeland Meyer (May 24)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Shawn McMahon (May 25)
- Re: Stealth Blocking J.D. Falk (May 26)
- Re: Stealth Blocking mike harrison (May 26)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Shawn McMahon (May 25)
- RE: Stealth Blocking jlewis (May 25)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Shawn McMahon (May 25)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Dan Hollis (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Jim Mercer (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Shawn McMahon (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP John Fraizer (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Jim Mercer (May 25)