On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 01:42:08PM +0201, Alan Barrett wrote:
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Phil Lawlor wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, we only blocked mailbombers. Someone here from AGIS can correct me if I am wrong.
You lie. You blocked me. I have never in my life sent a mailbomb.
Oh, I sent lots of complaints to AGIS, but every complaint was in response to spam that somebody associated with AGIS had sent me, every complaint required me to do a significant amount of research, and no incoming spam resulted in more than one complaint. Such complaints are not mailbombs.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
That's all right. They blocked me too, for the same thing (one complaint per spam).
From where I sit that's nothing new, but its also ok - we reciprocated, and blocked a huge number of AGIS-distributed networks (basically anything that a spammer was connected to). Guess what? Spam volume went WAY down.
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