Firewalls: Re: Spam at the firewall

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Subject:	Re: Spam at the firewall
From:	Jesse Brown <bextreme @ pobox . com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:32:26 -0800 (PST)
To:	Tricia . Reilly @ wiley . com
Cc:	firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to:	<effff978Spam at the firewall* @ m400gw . wiley . com>

Spam is usually mail or news traffic of a unwanted and unsolicted
commerical nature. At the protocol level it is no different than any other
mail or news message. 

-J

On 12 Feb 1998 Tricia .
 Reilly @
 wiley .
 com wrote:

> If a Unix server is denied access via telnet at the firewall can Spam still 
> access this server?  Or does Spam only access the mailport?
> 
> Tricia
> 
> 

--
Jesse Brown - bextreme @
 pobox .
 com

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