From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 28 10:48:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6F037B40A; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4SHlG3d023703; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:48:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4SHlGQm023702; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:47:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200205281747.g4SHlGQm023702@apollo.backplane.com> To: , , Subject: Re: RE: I can help you lose weight References: <000001c2065e$f9c8bcd0$2dde1b42@skeletor> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :Get this guy outta here! Firstly, Chris, I understand your frustration. But, please, do *NOT* Cc a random ISP ( masterpc@carolina.rr.com ) in email that you also send to a FreeBSD list, let alone several FreeBSD lists! This particular spammer is operating from 213.96.224.148, which has long been blacklisted not only by spamcop, but by many other DNSbl providers. See: http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi Personally speaking I think that hub should be running DNSbl. I recently gave up trying to fight every spam coming into my system (50+ pieces of email to my main mailbox alone per day, several hundred flowing through my system and bothering my friends). Instead I went through and upgraded sendmail to the most recent release and turned on about five DNSbl sites as well as added a well known HACK() to disallow relays whos reverse DNS does not resolve. My mail system now rejects around 350 emails a day. This cut my personal spam down from 50/day to 5/day. Well, that is until some asshole spammer started using my email address as the envelope sender for their spams, but that's another story. Sigh. Yet another up-and-coming trend by spammers... using valid envelope addresses that are not their own. At least it's easy to filter, and if I ever spend the time to track them down it'll be about $50K in damages under california law. A dangerous game, spammers play. A dangerous game indeed. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message