Re: libmng 1.0.6 beta1

Matthias Benkmann <haferfrost-S0/[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:41:47 +0200 "Gerard Juyn" <gjuyn-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm just tired of deleting 100's of spam, viruses and those
>> ever-annoying bounce-messages for emails I never sent in the first
>> place, each and every day. And yes, I've tried all the solutions, and
>> no, nothing works a 100%, 

> Giving up libmng.com will result in MANY broken links all over the world.

Yes, this would just be giving in to the spammers :-(.  Drop the email
address if you must, but keep the website.

I was forced to close down the [email protected] address about a year ago
because some variants of Klez and Sobig seem to reliably pick it up from
IE's readme file :-(.  I didn't just shut it down though, I arranged to
bounce such mails with a useful 550 error code:
Sep 14 23:49:13 sss2 sm-mta[3033]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=sac1-2.relay.mail.uu.net, arg2=199.171.54.203, relay=sac1-2.relay.mail.uu.net [199.171.54.203], reject=550 5.0.0 jpeg-info is shut down due to too much spam. Contact tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us instead.
I do still get some JPEG-related questions, so I believe real people
manage to deal with this.

Just FYI, at the peak of last week's Sobig infestation I was rejecting
upwards of 100000 virus mails directed to jpeg-info per day (yes, I said
one hundred thousand) ... so I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for
people who can't cope with mere hundreds.  Get some tools.

			regards, tom lane
			organizer, Independent JPEG Group

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