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Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Oct 31 00:06:02 1997

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:56:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Matt Ryan <matt@planet.net.uk>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <matt-971030101738.A0218158@banana.planet.net.uk>

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Matt Ryan wrote:

> If people are having trouble with their mailservers dying under the spammers
> attack(!) then I would suggest they need a more scalable system.

Obviously, your servers have never been hit by thousands upon thousands of
bounced spams returned in a short period of time by AOL.

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