[plug] Horrifying spam attack.

[Mr Shayne]

I have just been hit with the "Pearl harbor" of spam attacks.

An email list I admin just got hit with slightly over 600 spams , 
fortunately all caught in the admin interface. At first I thought it might 
of been some autoresponder thing, but they are all individual spams. Of 
course me and the other 2 admins all woke up to 600 frigging moderator 
request emails.

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Does anyone know how to blacklist an email adress in exim so I can 
nail them before they hit spamassassin.
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God only knows how deep shit Id be in if the list was unmoderated.

Oh. Fun fact: The spams averaged between 200-600k in size *each*. If this 
had hit one of my other lists with 400 members, and evaded the mod 
requests I calculate, this sucker would of eaten around 50 gig of
bandwidth and possibly my ass on the dole queue.

Unfortunately Legislation is behind the times, and its not legal *YET* to 
kill a spammer in cold blood.

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