Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, s. keeling wrote: > > Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 09/28/2006 12:23 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> > [...] > >> > also, threadjacking, but its spam related... is anyone else getting a > >> > lot of these "bounced email" spam? I'm getting a TON of it lately. It > >> > all has a .zip or .com binary attachment, so obviously its a virus or > >> > >> I've gotten a couple of such messages with the virus removed. > > > > Follow it up. Complain to the bouncer that their SMTP is > > misconfigured and they're sending bounce messages to innocent third > > parties whose From: addresses were forged by spammers. > > My experience has been that anyone clueless enough in 2006 > to run a broken server (Barracuda appliance, Qmail...), that > sends backscatter to random addresses supplied by spammers > and malware, is too clueless to understand a complaint > about it. If you can even get a complaint through.
I feel your pain. > Look their domain up in whois -h whois.abuse.net. Thanks. > postmaster (default, no info) every time. Send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown, or > sorry, your spam report triggered our spam filter. Schmucks. > Not just clueless, clue resistant. Clue repellent. > Report them to RFC-Ignorant.org when that happens. > Then add them to your local DNSBL if you can get away with it. > Or your firewall. ACK. Thanks. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
