From: jonathon <grafolog@netcom.com>
To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-20 05:46:47 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:46:47 +0800
From: jonathon <grafolog@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:46:47 +0800
To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Subject: Re: "Mail Exploders"
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Vin:
On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Vin McLellan wrote:
> semi-moderated newsgroup) could be slapped for just bouncing the SPAM back
> at the sender.
Cyberpromotions VS AOL is about AOL returning to CyberPromotions
E-Mail for whom there was no user on AOL.
CyberPromotions had a number of "User Unknown" addresses in
its list, as as a consequence, they bounced back to the
sender. And like most bounce messages, the majority of them
wre for individual address.
<< In effect, CyberPromotions mailbombed itself, by having
so many invalid addresses, that their system was swamped,
when those messages came back. << I suspect that people
that didn't like the e-mail also contributed to that. >> >>
This was all discussed on Listmanager several months ago.
> that the subscribers of AOL (or other online community) agreed -- in their
> intial subscriber contracts -- to have AOL refuse for them.
I misplaced a procmail recipe that automatically
returns to sender any mail that the recipient is BCC'd.
Very usfull for those with shell accounts.
> a chain of contracts that forbid it (without reference to content) from the
> backbone back through the IAPs to the users. (I think Long-Morrow at Yale
MCI has announced that any domain that originates spam
that travels through their system is subject to being
cut off of their system. They appear to be following
through with that policy.
Sprint doesn't care what travels through their system.
xan
jonathon
grafolog@netcom.com
NETCOM --- when only the worst in internet service will suffice.
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