At 11:13 AM -0500 3/5/03, David F. Skoll wrote:
It is quite expensive to gather a large set of open relays. If you're
sending out 500K messages, and you want to limit it to 1,000
messages/IP, you need to find 500 open relays.
I know an ISP which has blocked over 10,000 IP addresses that have
sent test probes against his server. This in a matter of just a few
months. As soon as he blocks one, the spammer starts using a
different one.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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