Re: What's OpenSRS Policy About SPAM?

From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid.net)
Date: Mon May 01 2000 - 09:07:42 EDT


Thus spake Anthony DiPierro
> > The ISP incurs costs at two points. One is the amount of time
> > spent dealing with spam complaints. The second is the cost associated
> > with having to scale mail services above what would normally be required
> > so that the mail system can process a spam run of 30,000 messsages sent in
> > a 15 minute period without buckling like a belt.
> >
> Any good mail system will detect and block a spam run of 30,000 messages
> sent in a 15 minute period.

As long as the admin has spent the time (feel free to substitute "money"
for "time") to set this up and monitor it for problems. This is a cost
that would not be necessary if not for spammers.

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