Spammers in general should be sent to prison, and made to spend their entire 
sentence with lonely men who's had their penis enlarged. 

Hehe

... John

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Weber
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:52 PM
To: dbmail@dbmail.org
Subject: Re: [Dbmail] What to do with POP3 spammers

You should get them to switch to consistent imap.  At least then they wouldn't 
be downloading all of their mail at one time.

-- Dan

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:53:46PM -0500, Jacques Beaudoin wrote:
> Your right MarK
> I have raid 5, 10,000rpm disks, 4 gig of memory, 2 xeon 2.0 mgz and my 
> server performance is great.
> 
> A-minute-Pop3-users make me laught more then anything but i dont want 
> to have 1,000 new A-minute-pop3-users next week.
> 
> Email is great but if I want to reach somebody within a minute I'l 
> phone him thats want they have to understand.
> 
> Jacques
> 
> 
> 
> > While it's definitely annoying, that's one thing I love about 
> > dbmail: It's an indexed SQL lookup, rather than a mbox-style 
> > trudge-through-a-10Mb-file-to-fine-there-is-no-new-mail approach.
> > 
> > With enough memory, and especially with the MySQL 4.0 query-cache; 
> > it barely causes a performance hit.
> > 
> > /Mark
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacques Beaudoin
> > > Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 3:16 p.m.
> > > To: dbmail@dbmail.org
> > > Subject: [Dbmail] What to do with POP3 spammers
> > > 
> > > I have my dbmail+postfix+amavis_new+fprot server running and im 
> > > blocking 7000 spams+virus a day (2,555,000 per year !outch!).
> > > 
> > > Well so much for spams comming from the internet.
> > > 
> > > Yesterday i made a small script using a mysql querry and the linux 
> > > sort program to get a cumulative readout of there last_login.
> > > 
> > > And via cron i executed that script at every minutes for 3 hours 
> > > to get a summary for the 3 hours.
> > > 
> > > Well i have more then 400 POP3 spammers (teachers with phd).
> > > 
> > > Some have setup there pc to check for mail every minutes others at 
> > > every 2 minutes and others at every 5 minutes even if they where 
> > > ask not to do that.
> > > 
> > > I plan to make a other script to send a automatic email to all the 
> > > pop3 spammers.
> > > 
> > > Does anybody have a other solution ?
> > > 
> > > 1 - Have dbmail 2.0 refuse rapid pop3 queries
> > >     but what the heck there getting to dbmail anyway
> > > 2 - Quick there derriere
> > > 3 - Fire them
> > > 4 - Send them back to school so they no 60 x 24 = 1440 pop3 querys 
> > > a day
> > > 5 - Send them back to school so they can help me write scripts
> > > 6 -
> > > 7 -
> > > 8 -
> > > 9 -
> > > 10-
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Jacques Beaudoin
> > > Responsable des accès internet / Internet security manager 
> > > Commission scolaire de la Pointe de l'Ile / School board Montréal, 
> > > Québec, Canada
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