I saw on another website where people can post messages on a webboard, that
the limit the time between two messages from the same person. Inconvenient
for the good guys, but I was wondering of this stops the SPAM.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Gedenryd [mailto:h.gedenryd at open.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:29 AM
To: squeak-dev
Subject: Re: John's email [OT]


John M McIntosh wrote:

> Now be nice to my ISP, it's a family run business and because the
> owner and I understand each other I get a shell account and no silly
> charges on volume or quantity, just a reasonable flat fee. After he
> received I'd guess a few gigabytes of 80k forwarded web pages from
> China he got a little overzealous in his mail filters.
> 

When we moved the Squeak list to SqF, we received the first two spam
attempts from China within the first 24 hrs. And when someone set up a
Windows NT "honeypot" machine, the first exploit that took over the machine
happened within 15 minutes, which is less time than you need to download the
security patches.


Of course the Slashdot poster is correct, most of my spam does come from the
US, not China--so the EU should block all US email.

Henrik