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Find the open relays and block the providing
isp. Inform the isp that none of the users on your isp will have access to or from any of their websites or
customers and their ips won’t be forwarded
through your system. Pressure the isps to police their systems. I believe it is getting to the point that we
just need to block all china addresses as it appears that most people are
finding open relays in china. If china
loses access to western internet, then maybe the government will want to act
more respectfully against internet abuse.
Of course that goes for other isps as well. Just my .02 worth Buck -----Original Message----- Dear Spam-haters (on Linux RH8), At first I parsed
headers manually, e-mailing authorities as best I could. Very time
consuming and pointless. I found an
article on writing a 'custom action' for the rules in my M$ based client.
I wrote rules and put bad addresses on a list, but the list kept growing and
required daily maintenance. Time consuming
and pointless. I found
SpamCop. Automatic headerparsing and e-mail generation. Cool!
I used SpamCop for a long time, but the true benefit of SpamCop is
realized only if you are a subscriber. If you are, then you get your
mail through them and they block all spam reported to them. If you keep using
your old method of getting mail it doesn't really have any noticeable effect. Time consuming
and pointless unless you subscribe. Finally, I saw an
article in Linux Magazine on the language Ruby, and after playing with it a
while I wrote a 'despam' utility which runs on a Linux box. The theory I went
with is 'all e-mail is spam'. Then there are those rare exceptions when
someone you actually know writes to you and you want it, so that gets passed
through. They get put on a 'friends list'. All others are moved to
a 'soon to be deleted' folder. There are problems with both the theory
and the program, but it does help a lot. If you've been on
the Psyche list for a while you may have seen one of the problems. I
joined the list back in October and suddenly I started getting these (ranging
from polite to hysterical) replies that I was spamming the list. Part of
the program is a (now optional) reply to the (usually fake) From:
address. I did it without thinking and it clashed with my system and so a
lot of people got replies that were simple list submitters (some call it a
'feature'). I think if I had selected 'digest' format and pre-added the 'psyche-list-request@redhat.com'
name as a friend it probably would have been 'ok'. I wanted a system
that was low maintenance so I wanted some automated features. The (now
optional) reply informed you that if you forwarded this to 'me@myserver' it would pass because of a
signature in the message and I would get an e-mail with subject 'REQUEST FRIEND
STATUS'. If I replied in the affirmative then the program would add them
to the list and they could send me mail. If a spammer actually put their
real e-mail address in the headers and they got the message and forwarded it to
me, I would just delete the message. If it became a problem because they
had the signature, I just change the signature in the program. If they
got smart, they could automate replies and spam me anyway, but this is
war! Isn't it? Another problem
is that my program pops the server at 1 minute intervals. My e-mail
client pops the server at 15 minute intervals. If my client pops the
server in the period after the spam is sent but before the despammer
cleans the account then I get a little spam anyway. It needs to
be a proxy server. Anyway, it's been turned off for the last two
months because I've been looking for a job and I just didn't want to mess with
possible job offers being deleted. And I haven't been advancing the
work on the program during this time. There is probably
an existing program like 'fetchmail' or 'SpamAssassin' (or maybe even
qPopper) that could be set to this mode but I just don't know of it.
Anyone...? As someone
mentioned earlier, the only effective way to stop spam is to block it at a
server. This is my attempt. I don't think there is really a good
solution yet. It should be illegal, like littering, and spammers should
be fined, but that would only work for US based companies. What about
countries that hate us? They probably pay people to generate fake
traffic. We need some real creative thinking and a coordinated
effort. Thanks, Greg |
