Unfortunately I'm quite familiar with DOS attacks and we have certainly implemented safeguards. As far as the list and I are concerned, the only servers involved should be mail.donsauction.com and mail.pdml.net. Both of these are "virtual" servers, simply meaning one server is shared by many domains, and goes by many names. It's easy to overload this type of setup if the domains/server ratio is allowed to get too high. We try to have no more than 250 domains on one server, less if many of them are very active. Filtering shouldn't really play a part in my messages getting lost, unless it's in the implementation on the pdml.net server.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Multiple messages was [Re: I enjoy film] > > > I am not talking about filtering locally, Don. I am talking about > filtering at > many mailservers across the internet. Denial of service attacks > were abounding > and something had to be done. I know that the amount of spam I > was receiving > dropped to almost nothing a couple of months back, and I am > getting very little > now, only one or two a day. I used to get about 100/day on this account. > > Generally it is a good thing, but I think some of them went a > little overboard > on it and are trashing ordinary email as well. > > -- > > Don Sanderson wrote: > > > My problem seems to be something other than Anti-SPAM, > > many of the messages I send don't get to the list and many > > other folks messages don't get to me. > > I control my filtering and it is all off on this account > > since I set this account up for PDML traffic only. > > It seems more that the list server gets too busy sometimes > > to recieve mail from, or forward mail to, list subscribers. > > (This could also be router overloads in between, but less likely.) > > This happens to our servers on occasion (I work for an ISP), > > that's always an indication that it's time to upgrade existing > > servers or add another server to the cluster. > > > > Don > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:35 PM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: Multiple messages was [Re: I enjoy film] > >> > >> > >>I think a lot of e-mail hits the bit buckets at ISP's due to > >>overly aggressive > >>SPAM filtering. Charter seems to be doing this. My webhost labels > >>anything it > >>thinks is SPAM as such and sends it along. I would guess I would > >>miss fewer > >>messages if I were to switch PDML over to there. > >> > >>-- > >> > >>Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Thanks for the reminder, Steve, although there have been > >> > >>numerous instances > >> > >>>here recently in which messages have not shown up on the list > >> > >>at all, even > >> > >>>after a couple of days. Perhaps we need an analog version of > >> > >>the internet > >> > >>><LOL> > >> > >> > >>-- > >>graywolf > >>http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > graywolf > http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html > >
