From: Gary Miller (garymiller@starband.net)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 07:12:33 MST
>>After recognizing the mail bomb, I instruct my mail reader to create a
filter to delete similar
>>mail, run a filter over my inbox, and I'm done.
If the junk mails have random spoofed addresses and randomized sent
froms, subjects, etc... Then how can you filter them.
In addition with large attachments not only is more target bandwidth
consumed but the potential to consume all the server's disk spaces
exists. Perhaps percipitating a server crash and the need for
manual recovery.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Cees de Groot
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:07 AM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Spam attacks again.
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 03:47, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> [10,000 junk mails per day] will totally overwhelm my
> human ability to read and sort mail, though.
>
After recognizing the mail bomb, I instruct my mail reader to create a
filter to delete similar mail, run a filter over my inbox, and I'm done.
> To send each message, a full TCP connection must be set up.
Wrong again, you can send as many messages in a single TCP connection as
you like.
Anyway, I missed that bit b/c of all the Iraq blabbering going on here:
who wants to mailbomb who? ;-)
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