Peter, no doubt your host might like some assistance with such a scheme. You should write a routine like that and make it available.
>From what I know of hosting in a small scale, there are always a zillion more jobs to do than there are hours in the day to do them, and other jobs have a habit of getting priority. Cheers Mike Kear -----Original Message----- Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Howmail as anti-spam? yeah right. That's very interesting. Perhaps my host could implement something along those lines. -- Peter Tilbrook ColdFusion Applications Developer ColdGen Internet Solutions > > <subtleplug>Being a _full_ hosting provider</subtleplug> we see this happening all of the time on our mail servers. Roughly a Gigabyte of traffic a month typically, and all just scanning rubbish. It used to a _lot_ more but we implemented a scheme where if a particular IP address tries to send more than a fixed number of emails a second to us then we ban that IP address for an hour and that will make the scanner go away and try somewhere else. It also stops spam engines quite effectively :-) > > > -- > > Yours, > > Kym > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
