[69293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Apr 5 11:08:39 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:38:02 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Andy Johnson <andyjohnson@ij.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <000b01c41b1d$2a7c0970$a7a616cf@andyj>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Andy Johnson [05/04/04 10:49 -0400]:
>
> Has anyone had any experience with this device? Turntide.com. Looks like a
> traffic-shaping device designed specifically for cutting down spammers
> throughput to your inbound SMTP servers. My main concern is, how does it
> make the distinction between legitimate mass-mailings (e.g.: mailing lists
> such as this one), and spam? Interesting approach to killing spam though I
> must say.
>
Sounds like is basically the same principle as that of an IDS.
srs
