[Gllug] Heh.. Cool...

[Jim Bailey]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:27:22AM +0100, Jackson, Harry wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Bailey [mailto:jim at freesolutions.net]
> > 
> > 2) I am learning or trying to learn as much about SMTP, IMAP and
> > anything else I can about mail and postfix, courier, and procmail in
> > particular. I guess doing it by hand help me to work out what is going
> > on.
> 
> I was able to get procmail running so its pretty simple stuff.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 3) As I stated I have lots of pent up aggression and sending emails to
> > abuse at example.com makes me feel better.
> 
> The reason I have never bothered is because I never thought that there was
> anyone out there doing anything about it. I have seen a few websites against
> spam but nothing saying that we have imprisoned, murdered, hung or tortured
> any or that some have received large fines and had their testicles chopped
> off, at least not in any quantities to have any affect. If you where to pick
> up an am radio tomorrow and go blasting around the airwaves you would
> receive a hefty fine in no short order. This is because all the amateur
> radio buffs consider themselves the "police of the airwaves". It's on a
> different scale, I know. I suppose its another example of the internet being
> a victim of its own success.
>
The worst thing is blacklisting an IP adddress or range if the owner of
a open relay or worse a deliberate spam box won't respond to reason
speak to the ISP or hosting company they usually do something.  In the
worst case senarios whole hosting and ISP companies can find their IP
range blocked by people like MAPS.

I must admit though that most postmasters with open relays I have emailed
with open relays have responded very well to a polite email pointing out
what is going on with their box.

Peace Jim


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