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Re: Did you guys get the same spam?

2002-09-13 21:13:28
At 18:04 2002-09-13 -0700, Hack Hawk wrote:
[snip]

------  Here's the details -------------
Return-Path: <marmitek(_at_)mail(_dot_)com>
Received: from 200.38.225.6 ([217.167.180.65])
        by denali.nightsource.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id g8DAgho31277
        for <pmhh(_at_)hackhawk(_dot_)net>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 03:42:44 -0700
[snip - argh!]

Note that if you were using the recently discussed filter "IP1 != IP2", this would have been caught quite handily.

Further, the IP (the actual one, in brackets) is listed in bl.spamcop.net and relays.osirusoft.com (no doubt others as well, but I just checked it against some of the blacklists I use, and this spam would clearly have been rejected at the SMTP stage if it were sent to me).

If more people USED procmail and other tools instead of using this list to moan about their individual spam woes, they might not get nearly so much spam.


Oh, jeez, ANOTHER post of the spam too...

216.72.57.66 is listed in bl.spamcop.net.

Look, everybody gets spam - heck, the PROCMAIL LIST itself sometimes is spammed - the LIST itself delivering the spammers message. Adapt your filters or learn to live with it. Start checking into DNSBLs - they're generally very effective and will also reduce the amount of YOUR network bandwidth which spammers consume.

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