[AJD] Delay in messages

[Spencer Yost]

My anti-spam/anit-virus service provider provides a report on thier
activities to me every day and there is a slight upsurge in the volume they
are rejecting, but within the bounds of "normal".   I know "script kiddies"
hackers (hacker that try to inject scripts into your system to send out
SPAM) are very busy these days, and since these scripts are one of the more
common sources of SPAM, anecdotally I would say the problem would have to
be larger than typical.  In fact I spent more than 3 hours on Friday night
babysitting the system through a storm of attacks( for the sys admins:
r0nin and other /tmp attacks) making sure they weren't doing something new
I was not protected against.

Spencer Yost
Owner, ATIS
Plow the Net!
http://www.atis.net

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On 1/31/2006 at 2:35 AM David Bruce wrote:

>Spencer,
>Maybe a related question, if I may.  I'm seeing a great increase (again)
>in spam 
>this month.  Are the ATIS servers seeing the same?  Now the pork product I
>like 
>but the email version I can certainly do without.
>
>David
>NW NC
>
>Spencer Yost wrote:
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>> On 1/30/2006 at 10:16 AM Dean VP wrote:
>>> The delay in messages on ATIS is getting to the point it is
>intolerable. 
>>>
>> 
>> It isn't ATIS.  All email providers are free to handle a message with a
>> Precedence header value of "list" any way they choose.  AOL and other
>> choose to defer messages whenever they are busy, like the value is
>"bulk".
>> Others handle just like "Normal" precedence mail.   Look at the header
of
>> the messages and you'll see the difference in the Precedence value
>between
>> list message and emails from your friends.  By the way, the lack of a
>> Precedence header implies "Normal".
>> 
>> By the way, some list operators improperly label their mail "Normal" so
>> this doesn't happen.  Assigning a precedence value incorrectly to speed
>> processing is poor form and smacks of childishness and I certainly don't
>do
>> it and won't do it. 
>> 
>> Specifically Dean, your email provider is deferring messages.  Here is
>the
>> queue file entry:
>> 
>> k0V32b7J014241     1705 Mon Jan 30 22:02
>> <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> 
>>                  (Deferred)
>>     
>>                                          <deanvp at att.net>
>>     
>>                                          <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
>>     
>> 
>> Spencer Yost
>> Owner, ATIS
>> Plow the Net!
>> http://www.atis.net
>> 
>> 
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