Excuse me if this has been answered already but is the spam not being generated
my chinese networks?
If it is there are different ways of combating this depending on the level of
your involvement with your backbone provider. I remember sometime back while I
was working on a medium size ISP we had requested to close routes to all
traffic from UUNet to us. And sure enough they did. That immediately stoped 98%
of the spam generated from their "free dialups". Even if you are simply the
administrator of the box, consider re-compiling your kernel with ipchains and
implementing some (even really simple) rules.
Nicko
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jean Caron wrote:
I've been trying to deal with what I believe to be chinese spam (mostly
unreadable stuff) for a while now. I'm losing the battle...
I've been DELUGED for months now...have called the Chinese Embassy,
The State Department and my Congresswoman but either no reponses or
zip squat and I am VERY #&%^!!'d about this. Over 15,000 e-mails in
my Unix inbox now...much spam...and they are now using non ".cn"
bogus addresses to screw around.
We ALL need to get our hands on someone with the balls to take some
action. I'm about ready to dig out my passport and hop a plane to
Beijing and castrate these little bastards. Perhaps a FLOOD of
phone calls to the State Department might help get someone off
their butts to do something. It is MORE than a 'Procmail' problem.