Re: OT: Spam & Junk email - what to do?

[Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet-20-00.com>]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:18:58 +0000 (UTC)
Roger Johnstone <rojaws@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> I woke up to find about 1500 had arrived in 10.5 hours. That's over
> two per minute! The good news is that my ISP has a virus filter
> which removed the attachment on almost all of them, and I'm running
> Mac OS X so the ones that do make it can't do any damage anyway. The
> bad news is that my ISP still insists on sending the stripped email
> to me, so it still took a long time on a 56k modem to clear them
> all. Running something like POPmonitor doesn't really help since it
> takes just as long to download the headers, check them for real
> email, and delete everything else, as it does just to download the
> whole lot.

Yeah, these things are getting ridiculous.

I thought of another possible reason the originators might start an attack of this strength. Since the 'Recording Industry' is using bandwidth records to help track/prove which folks are pirating, flooding the web with bogus files transferring everywhere would make it much more difficult to prove why someone had such a high data transfer rate. Just a thought.

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