On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:31:18 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: > > stephen kuhn - proprietor > > Stephen; If you aren't needing any other forms of communication from > GMX.Net, consider blocking their IP address in your firewall. I've been > getting a lot of crap like that and blocking them from the firewall > seems to do the trick. > > For instance, I'm constantly getting people trying (and failing)to > connect to my network from China, and Amsterdam. A quick check at > "arin.net" tells me where it's coming from and allows me to block their > IP's in my firewall. Afterwards, they're just a distant memory.
You forget to mention the advantages: You never have to actually 'download' the spam, and it takes some of the load off of procmail, etc. Plus, doesn't the spammer get a 'bounce'? Man, I wish I could run my own mailserver... :-( -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 08:48:59 up 14 days, 19:11, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.13, 0.05 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Apartheid will be dismantled, and its victims will remember those who helped to destroy this evil system. And President Reagan will be judged harshly by history." -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, after Reagan vetoed a measure by Republicans and Democrats to impose economic sanctions on the government of South Africa
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