The attack has shifted to massive info requests...!
dlp
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, David L. Potter wrote:
>
> Hi Perry...
>
> It's only filtering mail sent to 'majordomo' not mail sent to the list
> addresses so the overhead is actiually very low.
>
> Unless you're operating several hundred lists I wouldn't worry about it
> needing it at this stage....
>
> My filter is pretty crude and needs to be set up at the system
> administration level, access to cron jobs on a unix system...
>
> I don't mind sharing but I'm not interested in 'publishing' it until
> it's a little tighter...
>
> It does need work... cleanup and documentation and there's at least one
> hole still in it that needs to be repaired out... unfortunately I'm not
> likely get to it today...
>
> david potter
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Perry wrote:
>
> > At 08:59 PM 11/23/99 , you wrote:
> > >We now filter the major's front end, looking for:
> > >
> > >1) rapid subscribe requests from a single address, or
> > >2) bulk subscribes in one message
> > >
> > >It's in shell and messy but it might serve as the basis for a real
> > >solution...
> >
> > David, that pretty much sucks. Hoping that the list I setup a few weeks
> > ago doesn't ever have that. Would you be willing to post your setup, or
> > provide pointers on setting it up?
> >
> > We run the list off of a cable modem w/ Static IP and a dyndns.org
> > hostname. Something even 1/4 that size would probably kill our bandwidth.
> > ---
> > Perry Wolf
> > perryw@bellsouth.net / http://www.webmasterp.com
> >
>
>
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