From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 21:56:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ralf.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405C737B417 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:56:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by ralf.artlogix.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 99FE01B9C9F; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:56:56 -0800 (PST) To: Andrew Reid Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamming FreeBSD lists. References: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <20020108063723.GA24052@panix.com> <877kqs8h2i.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <1010543177.81109.0.camel@aviion.alfred.cx> <87advo6xv6.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <1010545001.81419.1.camel@aviion.alfred.cx> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 08 Jan 2002 21:56:56 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1010545001.81419.1.camel@aviion.alfred.cx> Message-ID: <87lmf85aon.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reid writes: | ... but what if they're outside the US? How'd you follow it up then? I'm | sure a spammer is intelligent enough to relay through an overseas MX. There are almost always ways to track down a spammer. Particularly with a large bill pending, most places will still respond to a subpoena. Besides, most spammers who use overseas MXes don't give valid return addresses, so would never be able to respond to release the spam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message