Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

[jdow]

From: "Kenneth Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

--On Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:02 PM -0700 MennovB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Anyway, IMHO with SYN throttle you would only be rate-limiting the
zombies, I would rather they stopped sending spam completely..

What I don't understand is how making them use the ISP server stops them from spamming any more than rate-limiting direct port 25 connections. Why do the packets need to be reassembled in an MTA and stored and forwarded? What does that step buy you?

For that matter, how in <censored> would an IMAP MUA handle BCC?
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