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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:58:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159826312.8907.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610021050350.3952@g5.osdl.org>

> Of course, the MX checking can also be avoided, and a lot of spam-bots 
> know to use the ISP connection instead of a direct port-25 approach. But 
> at least that way, the mail gateway can (and often does) notice the 
> flooding, and many ISP's successfully throttle at least some spam at the 
> source, so it does actually have real meaning.

Actually some of the smarter big ISPs with the less technical customers
transproxy port 25 anyway - using big Linux boxes and the netfilter
code.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-02 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-29 14:23 Spam, bogofilter, etc Lee Revell
2006-09-29 14:29 ` Ismail Donmez
2006-10-01 23:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-10-02  0:41   ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-10-02 10:03 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-10-02 15:21   ` Lee Revell
2006-10-02 15:24     ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-10-02 15:48       ` Lee Revell
2006-10-02 17:39         ` Erik Andersen
2006-10-03  3:37           ` dean gaudet
2006-10-03  4:05             ` Neil Brown
2006-10-02 16:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 17:49         ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 17:19           ` David Lang
2006-10-02 18:02           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 18:07             ` Martin Bligh
2006-10-02 18:22             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-02 18:29               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 19:31                 ` jdow
2006-10-02 19:31                 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-10-02 21:58             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-04 22:41             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 17:32           ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-02 21:33         ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-03  8:08         ` John Graham-Cumming
2006-10-03  8:52           ` Howard Chu
2006-10-03  9:40         ` Devdas Bhagat
2006-10-03  9:43         ` Helge Hafting
2006-10-03 10:50         ` Gordon Cormack
2006-10-02 17:34   ` Thomas Davis
2006-10-03 16:42   ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-27 22:30 ` Oleg Verych
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-03  6:08 Paul Zimmerman
2006-10-03 12:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
     [not found] <20061003060346.55869.qmail@web80821.mail.yahoo.com>
2006-10-03  7:01 ` Neil Brown

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