[CLUE-Tech] Brute force attack from host 208.188.115.21

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:43 am, Collins Richey wrote:

> Yes, 'automated' is a bad thing for some of us. I as a happy comcast (<
> attbi <@home) user have suffered from the overzealous application of
> automated spam rules to the comcast ip space. There are one or two
> sevices that I can't reach via email because of the automated rules.
> Fortunately these services are not important to me, and I can say the
> hell with them, but if the use of automated spam rules became more
> prevalent, it would be a bad thing.

Automated dealing with spam and virus issues and being extremeley heavy-handed 
about it was why I switched away from my former provider,  and one of the 
reasons I'd do it again...

It got to the point where it seriously disrupted my communications with 
people.