[NTLUG:Discuss] Be impressed/Be appalled

[Tom Hoover]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:58:39PM -0500, asenec at senechalle.net wrote:
> I've resorted to putting up firewalls against address ranges
> from which large amounts of spam originates--I had to since
> the never-ending, ever-growing flood of spam was about to 
> burn up our primary mailservers (incoming hubs for about 5K domains).
> At the moment, I have firewalls up against:
> 
> ...
> 
> Total addresses firewalled:  19772961 
> 
> That's about 8750 fw rules--and look at the load:

Just curious...did you enter all of those rules by hand, or do you have
a script to automate things?  I've just recently started doing the same
thing, but haven't gotten around to automating it yet.