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Re: spam closes Debian bugs!



Wouter Verhelst wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:50:03AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > but it should take more than sending a mail to fool them. Being force
> > to create a GPG signature (and so creating an address) for each spam,
> > I'm not sure it would make spammers happy. 
> 
> So, you would like to see our mailservers DoSed because they need to
> throw CPU power at anything that vaguely resembles a PGP signature?

All SMTP servers are an easy DoS target because of the large command
timeouts.

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Current mail filters: many dial-up/DSL/cable modem hosts, and the
following domains: atlas.cz, bigpond.com, freenet.de, hotmail.com,
libero.it, netscape.net, postino.it, tiscali.co.uk, tiscali.cz,
tiscali.it, voila.fr, wanadoo.fr, yahoo.com.



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