spam as an operational issue

Fri Jun 26 21:37:46 UTC 1998

A dial-up customer complained about bounced messages from Sprynet.
I think their explanation may be of interest to Mr. Dean "Spam Costs Next to
Nothing" Anderson and a few others.

Note that sprynet runs four mail servers round-robin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Postmaster of Sprynet/Interserv <postman at interserv.net>
To: sysadmin <sysadmin.h8s.spam at webkorner.com>
Cc: postmaster at sprynet.com <postmaster at sprynet.com>
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: smtp connection difficulties

>we had a massive spam attack today. sorry for any inconvience
>
>On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, sysadmin wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:14:54 -0400
>> From: sysadmin <sysadmin.h8s.spam at webkorner.com>
>> To: postmaster at sprynet.com
>> Subject: smtp connection difficulties
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are having great difficulty connecting to port 25 of your mail
servers.
>> We are usually getting 'connection refused' messages.  Our mail server is
>> mail.webkorner.com (207.53.76.15) and has all proper dns entries,
including
>> reverse dns.  Are you having any system difficulties?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt Sommer
>> Sysadmin
>>
>>
>>
>