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    ... the text (probably translated) of the spam posts are horrendous and sometimes funny, makes you wonder if we should let the through the moderation process to make the day brighter :)

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      ... the text (probably translated) of the spam posts are horrendous and sometimes funny, makes you wonder if we should let the through the moderation process to make the day brighter :)

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      They do seem to have been translated from Marketese to English via Swahili and Norwegian, don't they? :laugh:

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        They do seem to have been translated from Marketese to English via Swahili and Norwegian, don't they? :laugh:

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        ... gained in translation ...

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          ... the text (probably translated) of the spam posts are horrendous and sometimes funny, makes you wonder if we should let the through the moderation process to make the day brighter :)

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          No, in all languages; no.

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            ... the text (probably translated) of the spam posts are horrendous and sometimes funny, makes you wonder if we should let the through the moderation process to make the day brighter :)

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            I run an email server at home, and there is this one spambot that tries to send us this ridiculous spam, about 4 times a minute, 24 hours a day, for 3 years now. It is 100% rejected, every single one, easily. But they never slow down. At some point you would think they would realize that if the first million got rejected, they are kind of wasting there time on us. Dense mother f'rs.

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              I run an email server at home, and there is this one spambot that tries to send us this ridiculous spam, about 4 times a minute, 24 hours a day, for 3 years now. It is 100% rejected, every single one, easily. But they never slow down. At some point you would think they would realize that if the first million got rejected, they are kind of wasting there time on us. Dense mother f'rs.

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              They're waiting for a sysop to accidentally clear the spam filter, or if it's a paid filter for it to expire. Have you tried closing the port during the wee hours/public holiday? It may get dropped from the list if it doesn't see reaction on the mail ports (just announce it as sched maint for the important genuine users.)

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                They're waiting for a sysop to accidentally clear the spam filter, or if it's a paid filter for it to expire. Have you tried closing the port during the wee hours/public holiday? It may get dropped from the list if it doesn't see reaction on the mail ports (just announce it as sched maint for the important genuine users.)

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                No I don't close the port, friends and family across the country depend on it. And it's a cluster so it stays up even during maintenance. However, I DO run fail2ban on my edge firewall (Bob be praised!) And fail2ban rejects their coming traffic even before it hits the MTA. Their packets just drop - like dookie on the street. It's so satisfying to see millions upon millions of dropped connections in the firewall logs.

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