[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Policy for handling Israeli spammers?



6) Maybe limiting the maximum recipients for a single message ( "If we have to
pay to get it, at least make
them pay for sending it" O.P.S.S )


Peter L. Peres wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Skliarouk Peter wrote:
>
> > PARANOIDAL solution:
> >
> > 1) Prohibit smtp to remote servers. (Users should use ISP's mail server
> >    for sending mail).
>
> Maybe they should send a fax instead.
>
> > 2) Prohibit relaying messages from remote servers.
>
> This one works, and is used by most sites that were used as a hop before.
>
> > 3) Before mail delivery (from local users) check if return adress is valid
> >    one.
>
> Exists and is used.
>
> > 4) Setup mail accounts like abuse, spam, etc for complaints.
>
> postmaster@localhost is aliased to these names and others on many machines
> with imaginative sysadmins.
>
> > 5) In case of 135 user's - record their's IP and date (this way you
> >    could ask bezeq to disable their phone - bezeq does this).
>
> > ###########
> This I don't know how to implement. Ready to listen suggestions.
> > 6) Prohibit sending more than 10 messages per minute per user.
>
> By hacking the kernel to add a state machine and a timeout queue to the
> socket open call ;) Can be done in 2 weeks. BTW 10 messages per user
> per minute is 600 per hour, and this is spam class already. Takers ?
>
> Problem: When someone queues email for sending out (like me) and then
> connects, there can be up to 50 messages in there. They all go out at once
> because I pay for the phone. Suggestions ?
>
> Peter