ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25

[Christopher Lees]

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 12:00 +0000, ubuntu-au-request at lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:32:51 +1100
> From: andremangan at gmail.com

> Telstra was one of these ISPs after their email system
> ground to a halt when they were inundated with spam both incoming and
> outgoing just a few years ago.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andre

I remember this very well; the failure of their e-mail system disrupted
non-Telstra e-mail traffic too, which caused me to lose important
e-mails addressed to me, and also important e-mails that I sent. This in
turn caused the break up of a team for a university assignment, which
also caused me to fail that assignment, and caused me to fail the whole
unit (by just four marks!) and meant I had to spend another semester at
university!

Moral of the story: Use SpamAssassin instead; it doesn't generate return
traffic and it works extremely well to stop spam. You're looking at
someone who doesn't get spam on their SA-protected account anymore!