[Gllug] Heh.. Cool...

Daniel Andersson daniel at septum.org
Mon Jun 24 17:35:33 UTC 2002


why not use spamcop.net?

/ d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Bailey" <jim at freesolutions.net>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Heh.. Cool...


> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:05:52PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > On Sun 23 Jun, Ian Norton made the following spurious claims:
> > > Why do people think this is hard to do?
> > 
> > The thing that really annoys me about it is that someone (probably
> > someone I know) sent me one directly.  That means these fuckers now
> > have my email address!
> >
> If you hate spammers that much use  http://www.abuse.net or
> http://mail-abuse.org/, alternatively chase them down your selves through
> the headers and politely but insistently ask them to a) close there
> relay if they are innocently acting as an open relay. or alternatively
> if they are doing it themselves speak to the ISP.
> 
> > Grrr...
> > 
> > And as if my week weren't good enough already so far (Bakerloo line
> > out this morning), I find one of my domains has been used as the From
> > for some spam fucker.  Fortunately not a real address.
> > 
> Happened to Lateral to the gllug list with the Nigerian Scam a few
> months ago again headers are your friend.
> 
> Tracking down open relays and the source of spam has become a bit of a
> hobby of mine recently and in the last couple of months have closed 
> a couple of open relays and gotten a spammer booted off his ISP. A
> highly recommended way of releasing pent up aggression when you have
> given up smoking
> 
> Peace Jim
> 
> 
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