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Re: MS mail bombs



On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:25:29 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:47, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:43:12 -0500
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > > And *even if I did run my own mail server*, all of the virus/spam-
> > > filled packets would *still* have to be sent down to me.
 
> >     'cept for blacklisting at the firewall.
 
> No, since the firewall is on *my* side of the pipe.

    And how, exactly, do they even initiate an SMTP session if they cannot
connect to you... period?  I dare say that a dropped connection is far less,
byte wise, than a 130k attachment.  Wouldn't you?

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