[30516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: surge in spam email (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry R. Linneweh)
Thu Aug 10 00:35:13 2000
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:33:03 -0700
From: "Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh@concentric.net>
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To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
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If you respond to a harris poll email they never stop sending you
polls, even when you request them to cease.
"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> [ 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>
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