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Re: MARID sessions - do spammers care about BW?

2004-08-07 07:29:47
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:17:59AM -0700, James Couzens wrote:
| 
| I think this is a very important issue that everyone here should
| consider because since all of us are already paying (through bw cost)
| what benefit can PRE data rejection yield?  The only benefit is that you
| can save CPU as far as I can see.  Anyone have anything to share here?
| 

I recommend a perusal of

  http://www.faqs.org/rfc/rfc2920.txt

  http://www.postfix.org/uce.html#reject_unauth_pipelining

The bandwidth problem of spam is a side effect of spam; if a
spammer wanted to just eat your bandwidth and not send spam
they wouldn't be a spammer any more; they would be a DDOSer.