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Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:28:57 -0400
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:14:31 EDT, Matthew Crocker said:
IF you can rate-limit them across the whole Internet, If you limit 2 million machines to 20 msgs/day per mail server you are back up to your 10 Billion msgs/day mark. This is where DCC or other distributed checksum systems come into play.
My point was that there's no real *need* to distinguish between a legitimate user sending 20 emails and an 0wned box sending 20 emails, as the distinction is "legitimate 20 emails" versus "0wned 20K emails". If I were to only give my users 20 outbound connections/day, there wouldn't be a per-mail-server issue. Whether I can make such a policy stick is another question entirely.
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- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Paul Vixie (Apr 05)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Dan Hollis (Apr 05)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Paul Vixie (Apr 05)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Michael . Dillon (Apr 06)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Joe Abley (Apr 06)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 06)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Matthew Crocker (Apr 06)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 06)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Joel Jaeggli (Apr 06)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 06)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Michael . Dillon (Apr 07)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Erik Haagsman (Apr 07)
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- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Petri Helenius (Apr 06)
- Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions? Dan Hollis (Apr 06)
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