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Article #91Re: RSS-based email blocking?
From: Rahul Dhesi -- a2i support
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 00:00
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In <89rri5$lm7$1@samba.rahul.net> spp@bob.eecs.berkeley.edu writes: >Why not, as an experiment, turn off RSS blocking for say two >weeks for the entire rahul.net domain and test this theory that >the added load would actually break things. If it bogs down, >turn it back on. If not, leave it off and everyone is happier. We already this this, in the sense that I looked at the mail logs before and after RSS filtering was enabled. There was a big difference. On a typical day RS blocks between 500 and 2000 spam attempts, but on bad days I have seen it block 10,000 to 20,000. Despite this effective blocking we have had only two reported instances of somebody being inconvenienced. And even this very slight risk of inconvenience can be eliminated by anybody who has a custom domain. -- (Rahul Dhesi) a2i network support account <support@rahul.net>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1379c7,b306667132acd483 X-Google-Attributes: gid1379c7,public From: Rahul Dhesi -- a2i support <support@rahul.net> Subject: Re: RSS-based email blocking? Date: 2000/03/04 Message-ID: <89s2lh$m6o$1@samba.rahul.net> X-Deja-AN: 593309687 Distribution: a2i References: <89ppr9$fup$1@samba.rahul.net> <89qive$i16$1@samba.rahul.net> <89rdvj$khd$1@samba.rahul.net> <89rfd5$kk2$1@samba.rahul.net> <89rri5$lm7$1@samba.rahul.net> Organization: a2i network Newsgroups: a2i.info NNTP-Posting-User: support