Re: MS mail bombs
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 02:54, kmark@pipeline.com wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600
> > > "Walt L. Williams" <wwilliams@intergate.com> wrote:
> > > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails
> > > > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming
> > > > is increasing exponentially.
> > >
> > > My solution has been exim4, exiscan-acl, clamav, spamassassin and liberal
> > > use of shorewall's blacklist.
> >
> > Does that prevent the emails from being downloaded from the ISP's
> > pop3 server in the 1st place?
>
> If us linux users can create procmail filters or other such things, why
> cant the isp filter this stuff?
They can, and they (or at least some) see it as an additional
revenue stream.
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