Mail blocking

[Brian]

That greater message size is indeed one of the big negatives of this, that
will hopefully lead to more efort against this kind of thing.


	Brian

The path to a desireable destination
is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote:

> At 2003-09-25T04:06:16Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
> > One reason would be that the traffic is expensive.  I'm on a 2 GB/month
> > plan, after which I pay significantly higher charges.  I'm currently
> > getting 50 to 60 MB a day just of this mail crap.  Yes, it all gets
> > dropped (just dropping .exe attachments does it), but that doesn't stop
> > the traffic.
>
> Exactly.  I don't pay for metered utilization, but I *do* pay in lost usage
> of my relatively skinny connection.  I received 8,000 (yep, that's right)
> 200K emails in one night.  That was about 1.5GB of wasted data squeezing out
> my legitimate traffic.
> --
> Kirk Strauser
>