=== Forwarded Message ===
(Note from the List Owner:   I am forwarding his message to the list on
Bill's behalf, since the actions described in another email have resulted 
in his From: address becoming spam-quarantined at all LISTSERV sites
world-wide for the next 48 hours or so.)


To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: X- SPAM jobs: Is the cure worse than the disease?
From: Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:28:36 -0400

We've had the same problem on our site from time-to-time.  I'm hoping 14.3
will help with the spam problem.  Several weeks ago, our server generated
850 spam jobs.  Each one creates 162 jobs for 244 recipients.  I have a task
I run every 15 minutes to watch for this.  It deleted over 90,000 x-spam
mail files that day just to try to keep up.  List owners were screaming
since their mail was held up for hours.

At 3:13 PM -0500 4/29/05, Paul Russell wrote
>Once upon a time, spammers sent messages to hundreds, even thousands of
>recipients with the same sender address on each message. In that environment,
>blocking messages from the sender address used by the spammer was an effective
>way to block spam, and X-SPAM jobs enabled LISTSERV backbone servers to share
>information about known spammers.
...

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