[30508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: surge in spam email (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Wed Aug 9 17:27:02 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:25:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 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!
And the quickest way is to subscribe to a list like the MAPS Relay Spam
Stopper or ORBS. (Please, let's not discuss ORBS or MAPS in depth. We
don't need another flamewar. Thanks.)
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