Mail blocking

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Wed Sep 24 21:26:17 PDT 2003


At 2003-09-25T04:06:16Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> One reason would be that the traffic is expensive.  I'm on a 2 GB/month
> plan, after which I pay significantly higher charges.  I'm currently
> getting 50 to 60 MB a day just of this mail crap.  Yes, it all gets
> dropped (just dropping .exe attachments does it), but that doesn't stop
> the traffic.

Exactly.  I don't pay for metered utilization, but I *do* pay in lost usage
of my relatively skinny connection.  I received 8,000 (yep, that's right)
200K emails in one night.  That was about 1.5GB of wasted data squeezing out
my legitimate traffic.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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