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Re: blowback, was Spamhaus...
From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 21 Feb 2010 05:38:22 -0000
For the purpose of the following two paragraphs, pretend for the moment that you operate a business selling stuff via an email address Sales () Example Com. For dramatic effect, assume your children will starve if you are not able to sell anything. Further, pretend that you have really annoyed somebody--a competitor, perhaps. Suppose that your competitor has contracted with a real, genuine spammer to send email mmessages advertizing some trash at a rate of tens of thousands per second until the bot-net gets shut down using Sales () Example Com as the Return-Path.
Lest anyone think this is a hypothetical argument, for a while I had annoyed some eastern European spammer enough that I was getting 400,000 blowback bounces a day on a server that never sent more than 10,000 outbound messages/day. I was able to deal with it via some custom patches in my SMTP daemon, since the blowback had technical characteristics that made it possible to recognize efficiently, but it wasn't pretty. R's, John
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- Re: Spamhaus..., (continued)
- Re: Spamhaus... Graeme Fowler (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Michelle Sullivan (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Jon Lewis (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Tony Finch (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Michelle Sullivan (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Jon Lewis (Feb 21)
- Re: DNSBLs other than Spamhaus... John Levine (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Larry Sheldon (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Matthias Leisi (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Larry Sheldon (Feb 20)
- Re: blowback, was Spamhaus... John Levine (Feb 20)