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Date:	Mon, 24 May 2004 09:25:29 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: mail server running again

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Peter Skye wrote:

> The SCOUG lists are back in business. We were hit by about 40
> simultaneous spammers on Sunday afternoon which overloaded things. I
> rebooted a few minutes ago and there are only 3 spammers connected right
> now (up to 10 is pretty typical).

I tried to ask about this before (though maybe not so well), but are there
no active,
effective countermeasures we can put in place ? There must be various red
flags
that set such traffic apart from that which is legitimate . . . .

Jordan

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