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Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Thu Feb 3 06:42:03 2005

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:42:55 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


CNET reports 
http://news.com.com/Zombie+trick+expected+to+send+spam+sky-high/2100-7349_3-5560664.html?tag=cd.top
that botnets are now routing their mail traffic through the local
ISP's mail servers rather than trying their own port 25
connections. 

Do you let your customers send an unlimited number of
emails per day? Per hour? Per minute? If so, then why?

--Michael Dillon



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