* "Daniel V. Reinhardt": > Stefan Förster: >> I think that most of the poeple out there sending UBE/UCE want to >> make money, but the folks reading postmaster@ and abuse@ are in >> general not the ones who buy anything from spammers or get easily >> fooled by some Nigerian scam. From a spammers point of view, there >> is nothing to gain by sending UBE/UCE to abuse@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If a spammer can successfully send enough spam to system aliases, > then they can effectively cause a system wide denial of service for > email and other logging function as /var would be at capacity. So > spammers do have a lot to gain by spamming those mail boxes which is > why you set up an email address to forward those emails too so your > /var or your /mail/spool directories dont get full.
Your logic is flawed: Causing a denial of service against your MTA deters them from spamming your users. Besides, the RFCs which require us to have postmaster and abuse addresses don't require storage of those mails on the same filesystem that holds our syslog data. Cheers Stefan -- Stefan Förster http://www.incertum.net/ Public Key: 0xBBE2A9E9 Servicepack 5 für Windows NT wurde erfolgreich deinstalliert. Stand ist jetzt Servicepack 5.
