From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200309241934.h8OJYDj16686@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] spam In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:01:54 PDT." From: Dan Cross Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:34:13 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 477ecd92-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > For those who can't talk 9P, I'm trying the experiment of asking > friends to also listen on an alternate port for SMTP; I'm already > doing so. Once we get a few sites doing it, a few lines in rewrite > can select the alternate port for those sites. I'm not publishing the > port number in public, to discourage spamming. Mail arriving on the > alternate port gets less scrutiny and eventually mail to port 25 might > get tossed into a `probably crap' mailbox. This will work for a time, but it's just a bandaid.... > Oh, there's a sick idea: revive UUCP over TCP. It's been done. - Dan C.