Off-topic informational anti-spam anecdotal

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Wed Jul 15 15:02:43 1998

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
>
> > I've been hit many times by the same bozos. They almost always use
> > unsuspecting sites as spam relays, so I've been notifying these sites and
> > trying to shutdown the relays.
>
> Well, considering they are still using the same sites (typically ibm.net,
> att.net and mci.com) I don't think they're paying much attention.

Nonsense. Pay no attention to the forged headers. Look at the IP address
of the site that connected to your mail server (it should be in the real
headers in a "received from" line). It'll be some ISP in Norway or
someplace that probably has no idea they're being used as a gateway for
spam.

> I hope that 937 spam songs (at last count this morning) will bring some
> manner of cheap and effective restitution.

Well, it'll annoy their answering service at least.

-- Doug
Received on Wed Jul 15 1998 - 15:02:43 BST