On Friday 19 September 2003 01:14 pm, Chris Berry wrote: > From: Robin Lynn Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Right, but if willie is using TMDA he'll never even notice except for > > > an increase in server load, what's not to like? > > > >Willie uses a dialup and won't be able to get any real email for another > >two > >weeks. > > Well if he's running a server on dialup he's an moron, and if not then it's > irrelevant because it will be taken care of by his email provider's machine > before he logs in to download messages.
Willie's business is in a remote region of Arizona, Montana or Idaho and they won't see even DSL there for a couple of years. Also, why is his provider supposed to take a beating for something neither he nor Willie are to blame for? > > >That's the best case scenario. Worst case is that he sends out > >50,000 challenges. > > Personally I don't see that as a bad thing. If bandwidth were free and we had all the time in the world...maybe. > > >Want something really strange? Willie gets really mad > >and cc's all 50,000 challengers with a nastygram, which, in turn.... > > Software can't prevent ID 10 T errors. The problem here isn't C/R it's the > fact that he's being joe-jobbed, and that has nothing to do with TMDA. Actually, it does. TMDA needs to become joe-job aware, and virus/worm/trojan/virus-bounce aware, as well. Or do you think sending any confirmation mail to anywhere other than where it originated, makes any sense at all? I've use TMDA since 0.33 and wouldn't be without it. But spammers and virus writers are getting more sophisticated and we have to adapt to current conditions. > > Chris Berry > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Administrator > JM Associates > > "You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are > the same decaying organic matter as everything else." -- Tyler Durden > > _________________________________________________________________ > Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. > http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es > > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users -- Robin Lynn Frank | Director of Operations | Paradigm-Omega, LLC � 2003 Paradigm-Omega, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction and/or dissemination is forbidden.
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