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Re: challenge-response

2005-07-27 08:58:59
Hello Paul,

Am 2005-07-27 10:26:38, schrieb Paul Bijnens:

As former victim of such a harvested email address being used
as sender for spam, I can only strongly affirm that the damage
is very real.  I received about 2000-3000 "replies" on the first days
going from "user unknown" (usually from MS Exchange mailers) to real
insults directed to me personally (which must have been taken a
considerable amount of time of the writers too).
Even weeks after the event, I still received back scatter emails.

I am victim since around 2 years.  At least one time per week
I get such DOS on my <linux4michelle> and then I get between
500 and 34.000 Messages a day.  Currently I get around 14.000
per day and 95% of them on <linux4michelle>.

Because I am Debian-Consultant and working seriously, I do not
change my E-Mail each week, but SPAM is the price.

Never I have used challenge responses...
If I get such b......t I send it to /dev/null thanks procmail.

What I perceived as most damaging is that between all those "bounces"
(they do not all have the "Re:..." subject line either), there are
still some real normal messages for me, which I did not want to miss.

Yeah, I have the same problem...

On the other hand, my procmailrc skills were making great progress.

:-)

I have a blacklist of Server/E-Mails sending permanent SPAM or
AAV-Messages or Challange Reponses:

<http://michelle.konzack.home.tamay-dogan.homelinux.net/linux/tdmailblacklist/LIST_blacklist>

Greetings
Michelle

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                   50, rue de Soultz         MSM LinuxMichi
0033/3/88452356    67100 Strasbourg/France   IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)

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