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Re: regarding spam...
From: "R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:44:54 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Thorkild Stray wrote:
Another regarded problem with this is of course the anti-spammers. They complain about the spam. That's fine, but since they're either using stupid scripts or can't read headers they end up complaining to a _long_ list of people who really are not to blame. I've seen abuse-mails with 50-70 entries CC'ed. None of them were to blame, and the offending relay wasn't notified. When you get 50-70 of them a day, it gets higly annoying to read your postmaster/hostmaster mail accounts. These people often dig up the most remarkable addresses to mail.
Which of course speaks to the lack of standards and enforcement of any standards on how ISP's and companies should be dealing with abuse/security/spam related issues. Some have an abuse@ address others use a security@ address, some think all these reports should go to root@ or admin@ and some sites just plain have bogus whois info so you can't reach anyone. Thanks, Ron DuFresne -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ admin & senior security consultant: sysinfo.com http://sysinfo.com "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart testing, only testing, and damn good at it too! _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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