On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Danny Gumport wrote:
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:00:33 -0500
> From: Danny Gumport <dgumport @
dannygumport .
com>
> To: firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM
> Subject: How do we stop the spam...i have one idea...anyone else ?
>
> All,
> I have also received a large number of junk emails
> that seem to be directed through greatcircle.coms mail
> gateways...seems to have been getting
> worse over the last few weeks.
I've not seen these, but my ISP proactively filters spam.
> The porn advert that was mentioned this morning was one.
> the Talkpower.com one was a public one...
> Seeing as we all care about security - email spam
> is a security threat... how can we all work together to
Spam is a content issue, NOT a security threat. From a security
perspective, there is no difference in accepting one SMTP transited
e-mail over another. If you haven't sufficiently engineered your
gateways to handle large ammounts of e-mail, they'll just as easily die
from legitimate e-mail. If your gateways have problems with unbouncable
e-mail, they'll just as easily die from a legitimately misconfigured
client. I don't like spam just as much as anyone else doesn't like spam,
but it is not a security issue.
> stop the name lifters and people who send things to our whole
You can filter out this stuff locally, there are some filtering pointers
somewhere under http://www.cauce.org.
> list ? the Talkpower ad says to send them mail to get off their
> mailing list but it is addressed to firewalls @
greatcircle .
.
.
> can the mast of this last do some scripting that says if there is a
> trailer to request removal that that mail get auto magically sent
> to remove firewalls from the spammers list and to not forward
> it to us otherwise innocent folks ?
Half of the time those trailers are there to gather lists of legitimate
addresses who respond, so that's not a solution.
Paul
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