RE: Spam & GCI

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:02, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> 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.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/
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> "Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
> ---------

Or maybe rate limit.

Jon

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Received on Tue Apr 20 13:52:34 2004