Anti spam solutions

[Henry Spencer]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> I took Henry Spencer's suggestion of blocking all email greater than 140000 
> bytes and that was 100% effective, today my mother was trying to email me a 
> few pictures and it was over that size, off came the block, back came the 
> viruses.

Alas, yes, the size block does interfere with legitimate traffic at times.
I've had to route stuff around mine once or twice.  (And if I was still on
the FreeS/WAN lists, it would be a big problem...)

> ...Perhaps the solution is to make everyone go back to communicating 
> at 9,600bps?

Instituting the death penalty for spamming might help. :-)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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