I had this problem a couple years back with our education email address. While the account got moderate levels of spam, it was absolutely inundated with virus backscatter. After a few months of trying to block the majority of it, we deemed the effort futile and abandoned the address. It was a nuisance as our website and brochures all had to be updated but its 2 years later and I still reject about 2000/day at our MTA...
-Shawn -- Shawn Beairsto Network Administrator Data Kinetics Ltd. / Smart Telecom http://www.dkl.com http://www.smarttelecom.ca -----Original Message----- From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:16 PM To: SpamAssassin list Subject: User getting spammed to death I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. Do any of you have a suggestion other than simply turfing the email address ? Thanks Peter