gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x57198100.hantslug.org.uk.28947': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sun Jan 4 20:51:35 2009 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 20ACB3BE515C238D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:29:59PM -0000, Vic wrote:
> > I would
> > not be willing to impair the functionality of my mailserver for my users
> > just to
> > save some innocent people from sharing a little of the burden of spam.
>
> Then I doubt you see very much traffic. True bounces are comparatively
> rare. Some of the mail servers I look after get backscatter attacks
> amounting to thousands of emails per hour. If I bounced any of that
> traffic (I don't), those machines wouldn't stay connected to the internet
> for very long.
I managed to misconfigure my SMTP server a couple of years ago. As
a result, it was being used for backscatter attacks without my
knowledge. 25000 spam emails later, my ISP cut me off. To pretty much
everything. They left me outgoing HTTP requests. That was it. Not even
ssh.
Hugo.
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