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

Kelsey Cummings kgc at sonic.net
Wed Oct 22 15:19:49 EDT 2003


On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:02:26PM +0200, Jonas Eckerman wrote:
<snip> 
> I've wondered what they hope to gain. Maybe some servers turn of the 
> spam checking if they get too busy, and they hope to overload the 
> servers?

Isn't it more likely that the software is just to poorly written to
understand what the return codes mean and handle them accordingly?

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