[73831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Distributed Dictonary email slam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Hess)
Mon Sep 6 01:43:37 2004
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:43:00 -0600
From: Matt Hess <mhess@solarius.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <16699.62603.343677.787292@ran.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I completely agree, indeed it does not.. which is why we have now
dropped doing secondary mx for this domain.
Anyway.. thanks to all who responded on and off list.. gave me a few
good ideas to tinker with..
Probably the most notable thing from this is the technical level with
which spammers are now employing such a distributed network of spamming
zombie type systems in a very directed manner.. and I always pictured
them as drooling slobs that stare at blinking lights..
;)
Randy Bush wrote:
>>Impossible as the customer does not wish to give us a list.
>>
>>>You want to keep a list of valid accounts on the secondary so you can
>>>refuse mail for non-existing accounts on the secondary too.
>
>
> anyway, as they say, that does not scale
>
> randy
> ---
> Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> A: Why is top posting frowned upon?
>
