on a related note regarding spam. I recently signed up with spamcop. seems to be working ok as brand new=20 (fresh!) spam was discovered today. hopefully, this will start working so= on. I am getting some enjoyment out of making some poor spammers life a livin= g=20 hell (especially those that market the illegal cable device, the manhood=20 enlargement pills and the internet pharmacuticals). perhaos more of us should sign up. it'll definitely prove helpful. Proudhawk/Mage On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:32 pm, Eric Lee Green wrote: > I'm getting hammered by the Gibe-F virus. My post-filtering nicely disp= oses > of it, but that isn't stopping it from clogging my mail server. I'm get= ting > approximately 3 per second, i.e., about as fast as my mail server can > handle incoming mail, and that's not counting the ones that are getting > dumped by my blackhole lists because they're coming from dynamic IP's > (alas, most of them appear to be sent through their ISP's static SMTP > server). > > Any idea how I can effectively deal with this spam storm? This is > ridiculous!