On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:21:29 -0400, "Scott Q. via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org>
wrote:
>I know it's not easy to handle hundreds of millions ( billions ) of
>e-mail accounts but they should suffer the same consequences as
>everyone else if they can't keep abusers in check.
The system here has an extensive list of local addresses that could not have
signed up to receive email. Sending to one of them gets the connecting IP
banned for at least 1440 minutes (with escalations to 2^14 minutes) of refused
connections on any port the server listens to.
Some of these began receiving mail within hours of the domain showing an MX
record, when it was established 27 years back.
I had paid little attention to the volume of spam from @gmail accounts,
through the Google system until a long-time co-conspirator began sending me ND
notices he had gotten for stuff he sent me from his gmail account. We whack
at least one per day, at the moment; judging by the recidivism rate, it's
likely that a major part of their farm would be in the
> 530 4.7.0 Connection refused
territory.
Imagine if everybody did this.
>Just my 2 cents.
And raise you 1.
mdr
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-- Wonderella
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