Anthony,
Just a suggestion, divide your day-to-day operations costs by the number of
email or by transfer rate, then multiply by the amount of spam. Don't forget
to double it for time involved in tracking down offender.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Poisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: imail list (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 11:16 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Spam
> Looked at my logs from yesterday and found that the log was 106 meg, about
5
> times the normal size. Come to discover that there was a 10 hour long name
> spew spam attack. Idiot didn't even bother to go through a relay, but used
a
> Psinet dial-up port in Greensboro NC.
>
> Called Psinet and they recommended sending some log excerpts to abuse
> account and they would kick the guy offline, but they really recommended
> prosecution. We don't really have the time nor the resources to do this,
he
> even suggested a local law firm specializing in this area. He suggested
> placing a monetary value on every attempt at spamming us and suing the
> sender.
>
> What I would like is to have some people on the list that has done this or
> has any experience doing this, to respond back with some idea as to values
> on time and cleanup and how to best go about this...I do want to get the
> guy, but don't want to waste too much time and feed some lawyers car
habit.
> Thank You,
>
> Tony Poisson
> Network Administrator
> Tidalwave Telephone and Internet
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.tidalwave.net
>
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