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Blocking SPAM at the source?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Fri Jan 31 15:01:18 1997

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:45:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E4vtIK.7u6@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>


From inet-access
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Scott Hazen Mueller wrote:

> One way to fix this would be for the sites that own large dialin pools to
> firewall their dialins so that they can only do SMTP to their own servers.

Is anyone doing this like IBM Advantis, InternetMCI, AT&T Worldnet, etc?

If not, why not?

Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-250-546-3049
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael@memra.com


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