On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Juha Saarinen wrote:
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
Now I accept all this spam to these 'spam trap addresses'.
Isn't your "anti-spam" strategy based on you having more or less free bandwidth? IOW, wouldn't work in NZ.
Spam doesn't take up much bandwidth. Most spam is only a few kilobytes in size and anything over 15 kilobytes is pretty uncommon. A bunch of spam I have lying around (14299 messages) averages in size at only 6812 bytes. Only 3% were bigger than 20 kilobytes. So even if you get 1000 spams per day thats just 205 Megabytes per month. The problem is the load on machines, people's time filtering it out and the false positives. For example one spammer sent us (over the weekend) 450,000 (approx) emails over 3 days. All of these were from (the same) bogus domain (optprofessional.com) . -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog