[Mimedefang] Spammers who won't take no for an answer

[Justin]

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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> What we need is a new RFC, an addendum to the one defining SMTP, that
> says that one of the side effects of an SMTP connection is a reverse
> probe to one's NETBIOS ports, just like those to the IDENT port. The
> content will be defined to be precisely the sequence necessary to shut
> down (not necessarily gracefully) a compromised NETBIOS client.

When the auto-block feature of the firewall here was turned on it used to
block LOTS of spam and legitimate hosts that hit us with NETBIOS while
talking SMTP.


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> Actually, I'm proud to say that in Virginia it IS illegal and can even
> be a felony to send SPAM.
>
> http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-152.3C1

Anti-spam laws and technology companies that sponsor NASCAR racing... why
did I leave Northern Virginia for NYC, again? There's no so such thing as
a "backroad" here.

*sigh*

- -Justin
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