Search Again: off: spam was lame delegation From: Aaron Lynch Date: Friday, June 4, 1999 Time: 1:24:00 pm > >> I've been meaning to install SIMS for a year now, but I > have this problem > >> called time. > >> > > If someone gets a hold of your mail server and spams the > world... you'll > have even less time on your hands. > > ___Joe___ > Boy ain't that the truth... After you beg your ISP not to summarilly kick you off, then you gotta clean up the mess (I only had an ISDN when it happened to me... when I caught it after 6 hours or so, I had 9000 messages in queue and 300MB in log files) then you gotta spend the next couple weeks trying to get off the various ORBS lists... all the while fielding calls from people asking why they suddenly can't send email to their grandmother or whatever. Oh, yeah, and you gotta FIX the relay anyway. trust those of us who have gone through it, it's not fun. Close your open relays folks! (or it will be closed by more unpleasant methods by others) do the math... email message=10k x AOL email addresses (12+million) = 120,000,000k tha answer: it'll take a 1.138 MB/s line 24 HRS. 24hours of serving nothing but somebody elses crap. It's a big deal -A <shameless plug> use my nifty bandwidth calculator for fun and profit http://digitalspeed.com/bwcalc.dna </shameless plug>

Messages In This Thread: off: spam was lame delegation by Aaron Lynch on Jun 4, 1999 at 1:24:00 pm