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Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]



I *REALLY* hate it when these spammers try dictionary attacks. The
postmaster accounts fill up with thousands upon thousands of emails, until
they are over quota. Then the emails double/triple bounce to the admin of
the server (us).

Sincerely,
Jason
http://www.zentek-international.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Grimm" <elessar@noi.net>
To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]


> Speaking as an ISP that has to deal with spam complaints from our
clients,
> most people consider it spam if it was unrequested -- thus the
definition of
> Unsolicited Commercial Email. It's bad enough to have to deal with junk
ads
> through snail mail, but now we have to deal with junk ads in electronic
> mail. At least with snail mail the advertisor has to foot the whole bill
of
> the ads so they have to budget their advertising. What irritates me is
when
> the spammers try to claim that they are sending out their junkmail "in
> accordance to federal legislation" and refer to some House or Senate
bill.
> To the best of my knowledge, there still isn't any actual statute that
has
> been signed into law regarding spam.
>
> From Glenn Hocking:
> > Problem seems to be that GE and Pizza Hut (and others)  send out spam
> themselves so end up on the lists.
> > Seems that one persons advertising email is another persons spam.....
>
>
>
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