[rescue] Spam (was: Perverse Question)

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 11:50:17PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Combine it with a reverse MX for each hop in the headers and it should
> be nearly foolproof.
> 
> However, this is a big traffic increase.

It would, and a significant processing overhead ....  however, my
thought is that if we can kill the spam, the gains in both from killing
the spam would outweigh the costs in overhead.  Overall, we'd end up
with less CPU cycles and less bandwidth burned.


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