[Gllug] Help me to deal with a UK spammer

[Xander D Harkness]

Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Dec 11 2002, Xander wrote:
> 
>>for mail in `ls /dev`; do echo 'Thanks you for the offer of Low cost 
>>waste disposal units; however I do not buy anything from unsolicited 
>>calls or emails.  This is not unsolicited commercial mail, just a polite 
>>but firm no thank you responding to a relationship initiated by 
>>you.'|mail -s "Thanks for the offer of some Pampers" 
>>responseemailaddy at spammer.com; sleep 1; done &tail -f 
> 
> 
> Don't use a domain that is publicly available... Although spammer.com is
> not taken yet, it can be bought any day from buydomains.com .
I stuck that in as an example; however in use this would be the email 
that the spammer has requested a response to or for Terms and conditions 
etc.
> 
> 
>>/var/log/exim/exim_mainlog
> 
> 
>>This will only generate about 8,000 emails dependent of course upon the 
>>contents of the /dev directory.
> 
> 
> Using 
> 
> 	for i in $(seq 1 8000); do ...
Thanks, good to learn something new everyday :-)

Kind regards
Xander
> 
> instead of `ls /dev` is better since you have a bit more control over
> how many emails you actually produce. Your version probably wouldn't
> produce so many mails on a machine running devfs for example. 
> 
> 
>>Without the sleep you can really do some good stress testing of your 
>>box.  I have managed to generate prolonged load values of 600-700.
> 
> 
> Oops. So you DoS'd yourself then? ;)
> 
> Stig


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