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Subject: Re: security hole (not) - bounces
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ queernet . org>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:10:27 -0800
To: Alvin Oga <alvin @ Planet . fef . com>
Cc: Majordomo-Users @ greatcircle . com
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Alvin Oga wrote:
> if you reject the original spam  ... the spammers mta machine
> will fill up with bounced messages .. they will have to clean their
> /var/spool/{clientqueue/mqueue/mail} directories

Um, what makes you think they use sendmail, or any other standard MTA, 
to spam with?  Typically they use a specialized list-driven parallelized 
SMTP engine that doesn't bother with a queue.


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