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Re: [Asrg] Ban the bounce; improved challenge-response systems

2003-04-08 18:32:02

On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 05:50  PM, Kee Hinckley wrote:

Yes. But think how much fun list users have dealing with broken vacation programs, and multiply that by all the new C/R systems being developed.

cleaning up after one of those today, in fact. in danish. appends a message to whatever is sent it, doesn't rate limit to any given address, and strips headers, so our no-loop protection is removed. I didn't catch it until we had about 30 of them, all > 3 megs in size, romping through the system.

Our server will be back to normal about midnight, I think. maybe.

running e-mail systems is so much fun. The only thing you can depend on is that standards will be ignored on a regular basis by people who do what they feel like doing. something to keep in mind as we draft new standards and expect everyone to follow them.

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