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A spam story from ardvark.com
I had a HUGE problem. Once upon a time, long ago, in another lifetime, I ran a BBS (bulletin board system), and it was attached to the net. It was known as Ardvarks Always Answer, or simply "Ardvark". It resided at http://ardvark.com The year was 1995. The platform (software) I was using was Major BBS/Worldgroup. It was equipped with Vircom's Major TCP/IP so it had telnet, ftp, rlogin, and more on the capability front. It was sheer power. The BBS I ran boasted 72 "channels" or separate streams of communication between it and logged members. Which number well over 10,000 at it's zenith. I made the rather stupid mistake of granting Internet e-mail boxes to all of them, at least until the server began to groan under the weight of it all. I then took the e-mail function "inhouse" - no more Internet mail. But the cat was out of the bag. Every tom, dick and spammer harry now new of my domain, and all those mailboxes on it. Fast forward to 2005. The domain had been latent for a year or two (luckily I kept renewing it) Every time I tried to enable the domain, it would kill the server. WHAM! 20,000 emails PER HOUR, to every mailbox that existed on that server (and many that never did) - nobody could figure out how to stop the onslaught. My developer, who solves almost EVERY tiny little crazy techie problem I throw at him, suggested I move it to his server. I did. He's running this quiet little gem of an application called ASSP. A proxy server, sitting in front of his main server. Available on sourceforge...for free! Bingo. Problem solved. The incoming spam was causing less tha 1/10 of 1% increase to the server load, thanks to this amazing script. |
http://assp.sourceforge.net/
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