At 9:49 AM +0200 4/23/03, Andrzej Filip wrote:
Sigh. Time to buy another disk I guess.
Tapes may be more suitable for the task.
How many messages from <> to non existing local users YOUR site
bounces per day ?
I don't know, my mail system only logs the RCPT address in the bounce info.
I'm currently averaging 30 bounces a minute, with a peak of 96 in the
last 24 hours. I've seen as high as 700 per minute though. That's
on a site with no more than a dozen or so real email addresses.
http://www.somewhere.com/mrtg/smtp-reject.html
Actual bounce-back used to be worse when we were a common forged
address. I could get thousands a minute if AOL's servers were
getting hit.
Are you ready to tell in public that you do not give a dam about who
fakes sender addresses in your email domain ?
I used to. I don't anymore. It's kind of like littering. I'd like
it to stop, but I'm not going to try and track every piece of litter
to the source--just the big abusers. Keep in mind, I'm a special
case. Millions of people forge somewhere.com.
Unfortunately the fact that I know who they are doesn't help me at
all. Axis (internet-enabled video cameras). Microsoft (FrontPage
templates). They forged it. I'm suffering the consequences. Now
what?
If you want to look at legal requirements. Give me a way of going
after someone for forging my domain where I can claim more than just
lost time as my damages. Then you won't need to require people to
store bounce-back--they'll have an incentive.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.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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