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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:12:47 -0700
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Steve Coleman wrote:

> My current thoughts.. Most spammers use open relays as their way to 
> move their email into the legitimate Internet email system 

Are you sure about this? I know spammers abuse open relays but I'm not 
as certain that the majority of their spamming occurs over open relays.

> If enough machines on the internet listened on port 25 out there and 
> "ate" all the spammers junk like this then the spammers would have a 
> tough time staying in business by trying to use open relays, because 
> they would never know if their cruft was /dev/null'ed or not. 

You probably will have as much luck convincing people who have open 
relays (either on purpose or by accident) to configure a "spam eater" as 
you would just having them close their open relay! As such this plan 
would probably never work.



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