on the topic of spam, I believe that this mail was probably rightly confined to the spam bin, and doesn't belong on one of my linux lists LOL (I am only posting the subject line)
Subject: let me show you inputting pearl On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:40:14 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The mail server drops connections where the recipient does not exist on > my system, so all those connections get dropped. (it means that if > someone sends to the wrong spelling of my address it gets dropped too, > but hey its not hard to spell the names of the 4 or 5 allowed users). > > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:37:24 +0100 > Rik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any way of stopping them client end? (random numeric usernames) > > > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 03:23, Nick Rout wrote: > > > going through the mail logs (on my LINUX mail server) its just beyond > > > belief that in the 24 hours ending at 4 am this morning, there were 8787 > > > attempts to send email to non-existent users at my domain. > > > > > > usually to random groups of letters like [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Thank god they never get beyond that point. > > > > > > spam for dinner anyone? > > -- > > GNU/Linux User ~ Mandrake10 i686 kernal 2.6.3-7mdk GNOME-2.4.1-desktop > > Evolution-1.4.6-email Epiphany-1.0.7-browser OpenOffice.org-1.1.0-suite > > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
