Re: ADMIN: Thank you for *not* responding to spam...

Jim Roland (jim@roland.net)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:29:53 -0600


I just want to respond to you to thank you for taking care of this crap. I
tracerouted them, too bad they didn't go through a Virginia or AOL
router/server. :-(

mea@vger.rutgers.edu wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have just cleaned out about 4000 messages from VGER's queue
> which were related to that moronic bandwidth wastage spam from
> TICAL.NET's shell account machine (it seems).
>
> Any new bogon coming from that particular machine with exact same
> characteristics is blocked, but nothing prevents changeing those
> parameters a bit, and another such will be seen...
>
> As a result, nearly all messages with size exceeding about 20 kB
> are now in "freezer", and if in the set there is some real thing,
> that will hopefully be released once I go over that area.
>
> Oh yes, I "froze" quite a few "stop spamming linux-kernel!" responses
> with the entire original message in them. Lets not be stupid
> ourselves folks!
>
> /Matti Aarnio <mea@vger.rutgers.edu>
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