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Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 12:49:56 +0800
From: Mark Dignam
To: aussie-isp
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970501124956.00683c90@mail.omen.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] psi.net spam warning
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At 12:50 PM 5/1/97 +1000, you wrote:

Somebody was dicussing Spam, Wonder Spam...

> Dont know how many of you have been hit yet, but I did last night.. At
>> least 20 x 20k emails with hundreds of recipients for each..
>>
>> Details as follows for those who wish to 'protect' themselves before
>> they're hit (apparently a few ISP's in Australia have also been hit
>> recently):
>
>Yes, we have.  It's pretty suckfull.  We only just today have made two
>changes to sendmail.  The first stops the above happening (MX relaying),
>and the second allows us to specify blocking of particular email addresses
>and whole domains (like cyberpromo.com).

Having just made the changes to my sendmail, its amazing just how many
messages are now being rejected from domains that don't exist, or badly
formed/incorrect FQDN's.

I used the code from the following web site:

http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/english.html

Mark.

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