[Gllug] Spam

[Robert Newson]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> Robert Newson wrote:
> (b) getting rid
> 
>> of the spam that's been sent and arriving at my ISP mailbox before it 
>> arrives on my machine.
>>
>> I'm trying to do (a) by keeping my eaddr quiet and unpublished.  I 
>> suspect you're doing (b) which does nothing about the actual spam 
>> sent, causing backbone bandwidth to be eaten up.
> 
> Wrong.  I run my own mailservers which reject spam and viruses at SMTP 
> time; the stuff never gets through the door.

But it still has to cross the i/net to get to your smtp server, eating up 
that bandwidth, and processing power on the relays on the way.  In 
rejecting, do you bounce or drop?

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