Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions?

2004-04-07 Thread Michael . Dillon
OK. Make it 100, or make it 20 by default, user can ask for 100. Or anything else like that. The *POINT* was that too often, a compromised end-user machine can send *THOUSANDS* of messages. Not tens. Not hundreds. Thousands. Here's another way to structure this sort of policy using a soft

Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions?

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Haagsman
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If any of your user connections is the origin of more than 5 SMTP sessions in a single day, send an email to the registered contact at that site with a little statistical summary of the activity. No blocking of sessions, just a note

Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions?

2004-04-07 Thread Dave Howe
Erik Haagsman wrote: Spammers can only work when making enormous amounts of connections each hour, so limiting a normal user to 10 connections per hour with some extra slack after two or three connectionless hours, with an hour blocking penalty if the user goes over shouldn't pose a problem

Re: CW Routing Registry source change to SAVVIS.

2004-04-07 Thread Steve Linford
At 16:56 -0400 (GMT) 6/4/04, Padliya, Deepak wrote: Greetings ! On March 8th, 2004, SAVVIS Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: SVVS), a leading global managed services provider, secured all regulatory approvals and closed its acquisition of the assets of Cable Wireless... We expect the

Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions?

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Haagsman
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 14:25, Dave Howe wrote: I think 10 is a bit low. It is, although it's more of an example value than a practical one. You'd have to get some statistics on average e-mail use from your mail servers and tune the value accordingly. I am not really an abnormal email user -

OT: Determining toll free # ownership

2004-04-07 Thread Jon R. Kibler
Hi, I know this is somewhat off topic, but I am hoping someone here has previously dealt with this problem and has an answer. For some reason, the access telephone number for our internal use only dial-up modem pool -- which also happens to connect to our fax server -- has gotten on several

Re: OT: Determining toll free # ownership

2004-04-07 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: Hi, I know this is somewhat off topic, but I am hoping someone here has previously dealt with this problem and has an answer. For some reason, the access telephone number for our internal use only dial-up modem pool --

Re: OT: Determining toll free # ownership

2004-04-07 Thread Lou Katz
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:16:09AM -0400, David Lesher wrote: Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: Hi, I know this is somewhat off topic, but I am hoping someone here has previously dealt with this problem and has an answer. For some reason, the

Re: OT: Determining toll free # ownership

2004-04-07 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Jon R. Kibler wrote: fax telephone number. We have captured several dozen faxes sent through that number over the past few days, and they all have 'enter your number here to delete' toll free numbers on them and we would like to find out the telco that owns those blocks of

Re: OT: Determining toll free # ownership

2004-04-07 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
See www.junkfax.org --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb