On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Imri Zvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 1. This is not a question, but a statement, and quite a stupid one if I
> may. Do you really expect a serious answer? How are those related?


Indeed it's a statement. If you didn't understand the sarcasm, too bad.

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> 2. Please clarify this question.


The question refers to how spamming works.

Hacking into the system-> privelege escalation-> spamming (and this is only
one aspect after  the system was hacked).  DDos  is a much nicer effect from
the hacker standpoint of view.

How ISP deal with the fact that their systems were hacked?

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> From: sara fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date:  Fri 25/07/2008 13:49
> To: Imri Zvik
> Cc: Arik Baratz; linux-il
> Subject: Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting
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> Why ISP will spend time to block spammers, when they spend their time to
> block/shape/inspect p2p, voip and other protocols. After all this saves much
> more money.
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> I would like to ask a more general question. If spammers from abroad use
> Israeli  ISP, it means that their systems were already compromised. How ISP
> see such a thing?
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Imri Zvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>        I cannot discuss this further when you refuse to give ANY factual
> data. You publicy trash people (the abuse@ and all the other people behind
> that ISP) with quite a harsh words, and refuse to back it up with facts.
>        You, yet again, dismiss my attempts to help you, saying it's won't
> help (???). It seems you don't really want to be helped, but just taking
> advantage of the free and cheap shot.
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>        I will be glad if you can also forward these complaints you say that
> have been ignored by the abuse@ - I'm also interested to know why they
> were ignored.
>        If you have sensetive information you don't want posted on this list
> - you can always mail it to me off-list.
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>        I must emphasize this - almost 24 hours after the original flametory
> post, I still didn't get ANYTHING to work with.
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>        From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] בשם Arik Baratz
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>        Date: ו 25/07/2008 05:21
>        To: linux-il
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>        Subject: Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting
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>        On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Imri Zvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>               Let me get this straight - You claim you already know of a
> specific user that is abusing you over and over. You complain that this ISP
> is not willing to help. I'm offering to help you, and I'm in the position to
> do so.
>               You refuse with the lame excuse I (or the company I work for)
> might sue you? COME ON. Sounds quite evasive to me. If you really care and
> want something to be done, you can use my help - If you want to continue
> with this trolling, please, stop wasting my time.
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>        This doesn't become you, Imri.
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>        I will send the LIST OF USERS that are spamming me to the abuse
> address. If hypothetically, you are the ISP discussed, you should be able to
> help me then.
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>        Just give me some time to write a python script to download my spam
> folders and sort through the headers to find them.
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>        Besides, what good does it do to me that you're going to close the
> users' account this one singular time? I'm talking about years of continued
> abuse by many of your users. It's not going to be a one-off, and if mail to
> abuse doesn't seem to help, this one-off isn't going to do much of a
> difference anyway.
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>        So if I automate my scripts to the level that I can trust them to
> run unattended, I might be able to make it run on a regular basis and send
> automated messages to abuse, complete with headers and PGP signed, and then
> create a graph showing exactly how effective the abuse complaints are (i.e.
> how many messages I got after the first complaint and for how long). It
> might be an interesting experiment. I have however just recently relocated
> and am still pretty busy in a new role, location, country and continent so
> it will take some time.
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>        If it works out I might even do it for all Israeli ISPs and track it
> on a web page... Hmm...
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>        -- Arik
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