The Logic Off Topic list

Spam is really getting insane. If the spammers only realized their actions
were probably going to be the main reason some sort of International
Internet Police thing is set up maybe they'd stop.

I worked for a small (< 1000 customers) Kansas ISP for four years up until
June of 2001... Even that *small* company was completely hammered by
spammers. So much so that on Friday and Saturday nights there would be so
many dozens and dozens of spam attempts every second our quite robust
servers would slowly crash. The worst thing was 90% of the spam wasn't even
being sent -to- us, the spammers were trying to bounce the messages off of
us, basically using our email servers to send out their spam. The silly
thing was, all the requests were automatically denied, since we didn't let
outside IP addresses to relay messages through us unless we specifcally
allowed them to.. So the idiot spammers would attempt to send hundreds and
hundreds of messages, one after another, for hours on end, each one getting
rejected. We ended up having to automatically ban all traffic from Korea,
Japan, Malasia, China, and many other countries. I'm sure a lot of the spam
originating from other countries comes from people in -other- contries yet
hacking into their computers and using them to send out the spam, but
still.. We had no choice but to ban them, which kind of sucks. 

Luckily I'm out of the ISP thing so I don't have to worry about this
anymore....... 

Btw I'm not sure if its still up but check out www.freewebemail.com 

/-----Original Message-----
/From: Richmond, James (James) ** CTR ** [mailto:richmondj@...]
/Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:16 AM
/To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
/Subject: [L-OT] Microsoft are complete arses... Experiment
/
/
/Hi people, 
/ 
/a lil rant for you all this Friday afternoon.
/ 
/I decided to open a new Hotmail account about a month ago. I opened it
/at hotmail but hadnt told anyone I had it.
/I made sure I did not subscribe to any hotmail services, not did I use
/this email address to anything.
/ 
/I checked it today and after 4 weeks I had 198 unread spam mails.
/Yes, the spam filter was off but it shouldnt matter IMO. It was a new
/account. It was not an obvious name at all. In fact it was somewhat
/cryptic.
/198 unread mails.
/Bastards! 
/Closing account. :-)
/ 
/James
/
/
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