[NCLUG] anti-spam warfare

Mike Loseke mike at verinet.com
Thu Nov 16 14:03:30 MST 2000


 For some reason, my three-letter domain name (swo.com) tends to get alot
of spam for non-existent users. I'm assuming it's because of folks just
typing in garbage when they don't want to give their real email.

 I have a minimal filter in place which sends an error message to the
sender but I get a bounce if (when) the sender's email doesn't exist. I
just envisioned a filter which holds the "enemy" MTA hostage while
it figures out whether or not the sender exists and then releases the
hostage afterwards - maybe an hour or two if the sender doesn't exist.

 I'm not in a MTA mood at the moment so I'm just thought I'd throw this out
and see what the masses think. :-)

-- 
   Mike Loseke    | ... Logically incoherent, semantically
 mike at verinet.com | incomprehensible, and legally ... impeccable!



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