On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, David S. Madole wrote: > > > From Mike Cardwell on Friday, June 15, 2007 2:39 PM > > > > I did consider that. The headers on their own don't seem to > > be a free pass, but they do help. Otherwise any old spammer > > could spam all the hotmail addresses they wanted. > > Except that it's expensive for spammers to send large messages because > they are sending millions. Every extra byte is multiplied by a large > factor. >
When you're using someone else's bandwidth (think 'botnet'), it's not so expensive. > Likewise, it's not at all unusual for SpamAssassin installations to > bypass scanning for messages over some certain size because scanning is > expensive, so Hotmail is not nearly unique in this. > Yup. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] LC Unit #260 TINLC Have you hugged your firewall today? No spam, thanks. -------------------------------------------------------- Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
