Spammers in general should be sent to prison, and made to spend their entire sentence with lonely men who's had their penis enlarged.
Hehe ... John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Weber Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:52 PM To: dbmail@dbmail.org Subject: Re: [Dbmail] What to do with POP3 spammers You should get them to switch to consistent imap. At least then they wouldn't be downloading all of their mail at one time. -- Dan On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:53:46PM -0500, Jacques Beaudoin wrote: > Your right MarK > I have raid 5, 10,000rpm disks, 4 gig of memory, 2 xeon 2.0 mgz and my > server performance is great. > > A-minute-Pop3-users make me laught more then anything but i dont want > to have 1,000 new A-minute-pop3-users next week. > > Email is great but if I want to reach somebody within a minute I'l > phone him thats want they have to understand. > > Jacques > > > > > While it's definitely annoying, that's one thing I love about > > dbmail: It's an indexed SQL lookup, rather than a mbox-style > > trudge-through-a-10Mb-file-to-fine-there-is-no-new-mail approach. > > > > With enough memory, and especially with the MySQL 4.0 query-cache; > > it barely causes a performance hit. > > > > /Mark > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacques Beaudoin > > > Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 3:16 p.m. > > > To: dbmail@dbmail.org > > > Subject: [Dbmail] What to do with POP3 spammers > > > > > > I have my dbmail+postfix+amavis_new+fprot server running and im > > > blocking 7000 spams+virus a day (2,555,000 per year !outch!). > > > > > > Well so much for spams comming from the internet. > > > > > > Yesterday i made a small script using a mysql querry and the linux > > > sort program to get a cumulative readout of there last_login. > > > > > > And via cron i executed that script at every minutes for 3 hours > > > to get a summary for the 3 hours. > > > > > > Well i have more then 400 POP3 spammers (teachers with phd). > > > > > > Some have setup there pc to check for mail every minutes others at > > > every 2 minutes and others at every 5 minutes even if they where > > > ask not to do that. > > > > > > I plan to make a other script to send a automatic email to all the > > > pop3 spammers. > > > > > > Does anybody have a other solution ? > > > > > > 1 - Have dbmail 2.0 refuse rapid pop3 queries > > > but what the heck there getting to dbmail anyway > > > 2 - Quick there derriere > > > 3 - Fire them > > > 4 - Send them back to school so they no 60 x 24 = 1440 pop3 querys > > > a day > > > 5 - Send them back to school so they can help me write scripts > > > 6 - > > > 7 - > > > 8 - > > > 9 - > > > 10- > > > > > > > > > Jacques Beaudoin > > > Responsable des accès internet / Internet security manager > > > Commission scolaire de la Pointe de l'Ile / School board Montréal, > > > Québec, Canada > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > Dbmail@dbmail.org > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
