Re: [cobalt-users] [isp-linux] Monkeys.com is down

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On 9/25/03 3:16 AM, "Phil Beynon" wrote:

> So if people want to damage a company all they now have to do is mass spam
> californian addresses using genuine looking spoofed emails from a company
> they are having a disagreement with and sit back and watch.
> If some big corporate has pissed you off it could be worth buying up a CD of
> email addresses just to tie up their legal team for the following few
> months. Bet I won't be the only one to see that potential.
> 
Phil
Good points, and I know that many adult operators have rules and such on
doing spam for sales, and others will allow it. As for the abuse of the law,
I think most of these cases will be based on a pattern and not a random spam
outburst (at least I would hope so). Still the idea that they want to go
after the company /website that the spam leads to is a start in the right
direction. Sort of the same way the police will do stings on johns and the
drug user. Stop the source of the demand for market.

So far with the use of spamassassin on our servers, we don't use the RBL's
we have seen a dramatic lowering of spam. But still doesn't stop all that
wasted bandwidth we have on our network.

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David Thurman
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