[11562] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An end to spam through Graphnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Fri Aug 1 17:41:49 1997
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:36:33 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970801142840.27468g-100000@precipice.v-site.net> [9708.01]
On Aug 1, Geoff White <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net> wrote:
> > Let this be an object lesson to those of you out there who have
> > yet to upgrade:
> > the spammers will find you sooner or later.
And once they've found you, they will keep on relaying through
you until you make it impossible for them to do so.
> Can anyone elaborate a little more on the "one true" set of procedures
> that one should take to prevent spammers from abusing ones resources.
It varies depending on what your situation is, and how smart
you expect your customers to be.
> The current problem that I have is valid customers who are "on the road"
> and want to sendmail through my SMTP server when they dial into
> att or netcom, before their eudora's used to point their SMTP server
> at me, that ain't happenin' after my spam attach so is there some work
> around that they can use?
The /best/ idea is to have them use a local SMTP server. If
they can't or won't do that, there are a few recipes floating
around that let you exempt messages from specific sources; I
haven't investigated those much, but they're out there.
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