From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 15: 8:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BB937B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:08:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 168rL0-000NPJ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:08:26 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 4C2D2110E; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:05:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:05:50 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this spam Message-ID: <20011128000550.A1687@raggedclown.net> References: <000101c17718$77d43180$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011127104635.Y15780-100000@localhost> <20011127164937.A605@starpower.net> <3C04120C.58F8D495@lmco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C04120C.58F8D495@lmco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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 Hello, For fun I just did a google search for "get rich quick" Google found "about 800,000" pages in 0.8 seconds. So spammers, I already know where to look :) I didn't try "porno" or "refugee needs bank account to move $100,000,000 from war-ravaged homeland" but I don't doubt I will find just a few references if I did. I am not entirely sure it is the job of an ISP to filter out spam. On the other hand if they end up with pissed-off or offended customers, or they are a small outfit with limited resources they may want to. I know my ISP will shut you down in 5 minutes if they see you are an open-relay. There are tools to help limit spam, maybe in an imperfect world that is the best we can do. Use blacklists, have mail reject rules in your MTA, use procmail, make sure you cannot be used as a relay. I know some people think this is OT for this kind of list, but it is a problem for anyone on any list, and I feel it is legitimate to try and spread ideas on fighting this horrendous waste of time and resources. Anyway, an outfit called lucky.com inundates me with mail once a week or so sent to invented user names, it is sweet to see them in my reject mailing list report :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message