Posted by Tina Peters on 01/20/07 22:04

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote in message
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> Per Tina Peters:
>> A good rule of thumb to avoid this type of attack is
>>to not have a "catchall" email account setup, since a lot of the bounces
>>will end up there.
>
> I can support that from experience.
>
> Before I caught on, my domain was getting 7,500-8,000 spams per day - most
> dictionary attacks.

Yeah, we now set up all hosting accounts with the catch all account set to
:blackhole: - it doens't thwart Joe Job attacks entirely, but it does
help.

--Tina

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