Subject: Re: (off-topic) How to hinder mail-ads ?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Wiker, Raymond <etorwi@eto.ericsson.se>
List: current-users
Date: 03/04/1997 08:45:47
der Mouse writes:
> > People at my site including myself keep receiving junk-advertising.
>
> > How can I force 'sendmail' to bounce/disconnect/fail in some way that
> > the remote machine gets an error, or at least make it send the mail
> > to /dev/null ?
[ ... ]
> Personally, I just send complaints to postmaster and domain contact
> addresses (the latter obtained from WHOIS). So far I've seen very few
> repeat offenses (ie, I've rarely had occasion to complain about a
> single address or site more than once).
I have had mail repeated mail spams from a couple of sites,
noatably moneyworld.com and {sally,nancynet}.com. I think
moneyworld.com is out of "business", but {sally,nancy}net.com is very
active at the moment (see current discussions on
news.admin.net-abuse.email). {sally,nancy}net.com also seems to be
indulging in header rewriting, putting the blame on worldnet.att.net
(mostly); alternatively, they're telling their customers to post from
a "throwaway" account at worldnet.att.net.
This is enough of a nuisance to me (and the ~1k people that I
am acting postmaster for at eto.ericsson.se) that I will ask the
postmaster at ericsson.se to refuse connections from hosts in the
{sally,nancy}net.com domain, and add other domains to the blacklist as
they turn up.
> In my case, I'm lucky when it
> comes to identifying spams - there's an address that has been out of
> date for years but is still accepted by our mailer, and forwarded to
> me. This address _never_ receives legitimate mail; I've not seen
> anything but ad-spams mailed to it for multiple years. It must be on
> some popular-among-spammers list of addresses....
Ditto for me; unfortunately, I have now begun to get email
with my valid address :-(
//Raymond.