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

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Michael H Moran wrote:

> On the other hand it could simply be the lasted script kiddie attempt at
> a smtp or http DOS tool.

I don't think so; in my experience, they really are trying to send a spam
message.

I think there's some spamware out there that just doesn't distinguish
temporary 4xx failures from permanent 5xx failures and keeps retrying.

--
David.