RE: Spam & GCI

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Leif Sawyer wrote:

> C'est no moi.
>
> The problem is that customers are sending spam through, which gets
> reported and treated as if it were relayed (which, it was) through
> an open server (which it is not)
>
>
> Practically every ISP deals with this, I'm sure. And even if they're
> enforcing authentication for every mail, all that does is give them
> more 'meat' to go after the infringing customer.
>
> We do go after the infringers -- in fact, yesterday there were at
> least 8 folks shut off for spamming. I've got a couple packet-caps
> for the evidence file.

One thing you can do is use a milter which would scan everything going in and
out, allowing you to nuke at least a portion. And that would give you logs to
identify the offending IPs on your network sending crap out.

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Received on Tue Apr 20 11:01:59 2004