[ 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>