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List:       spamassassin-users
Subject:    Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations
From:       Kenneth Porter <shiva () sewingwitch ! com>
Date:       2006-08-03 15:33:15
Message-ID: 9971943FCDE894DA7A415F4D () [10 ! 170 ! 7 ! 6]
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--On Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:02 PM -0700 MennovB <mvbengro@xs4all.nl> 
wrote:

> Anyway, IMHO with SYN throttle you would only be rate-limiting the
> zombies, I would rather they stopped sending spam completely..

What I don't understand is how making them use the ISP server stops them 
from spamming any more than rate-limiting direct port 25 connections. Why 
do the packets need to be reassembled in an MTA and stored and forwarded? 
What does that step buy you?


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