On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:28:07 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/16/02 5:35 PM, "Bob Puff@NLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've seen the next generation of spammer software at work recently. >> Spammer's machine makes direct SMTP connection to my box > Actually, the REAL state of the art is that they look up your MX > records, and do this to the HIGHEST ranked one (not the lowest). Yup. I first started seeing this around March of last year and started mentioning that fact here and on the various list-manager lists at that time. > This is on the (it turns out, quite valid) assumption that it won't be > spamblocked as well as the main MX relay is, but will be validated to > forward stuff in to you. And where they're trying that, we're finding > it works (grumble grr) damn well. You're not alone. Currently some 30% of my SPAM comes thru backup MXes. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
