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Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri May 3 23:23:22 2002

From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Scott Granados <scott@graphidelix.net> 
	of "Fri, 03 May 2002 18:39:11 PDT."
	<Pine.LNX.4.33.0205031837130.8666-100000@penguin.graphidelix.net> 
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 20:21:44 -0700
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> ... not only does it cost usually very little to receive these messages ...

even if i granted to a third party the right to determine the value of my
time, which i don't, the fact is that an hour or more of my time per day is
too high a price to pay "to receive these messages", by _any_ standard.

to understand the scale, here's what came in during my trip home tonight.

 456 05/03 "Big Brother"     Protect your family on the Internet<<<HTML> <BOD
 457 05/03 "Big Brother"     Protect your family on the Internet<<<HTML> <BOD
 458 05/03 "Big Brother"     Protect your family on the Internet<<<HTML> <BOD
 459 05/03 "Big Brother"     Protect your family on the Internet<<<HTML> <BOD
 460 05/04 FreeSampleCenter  Win $20,000! Win $20,000 to RENOVATE your Home!<
 463 05/04 my_own_business20 If a 15 year old boy can earn $71,000 in just a 
 464 05/03 "mike"            YOUR HEALTH zNAUiqxgEx<<This is a multi-part mes
 465 05/03 National Financia InvestorFacts: NasdaqNM: DSSI -Data Systems and 
 466 05/02 "Pamila Binkley"  don't Pay another monthly Bill until you read th
 469 05/04 Tax.Relief@isc.or Large Annual Tax Savings!<<<html> <head> <title>

remember, it would be ~4X higher without filtering, according to my syslogs.

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