Hey guys, Thanks for your suggestions, will look into it but 1.I dont think just closing the catch all will solve the problem 2.Yep, checked if I had an open relay immediately, thats secure, its not being relayed from me 3.Yep, am answering all emails politely and explaining to the people who are writing to me 4.Got in touch with my ISP and told them whats happening and that we *are not* the ones doing this crap. 5.I filtered the messages and I see that they are already blacklisted by spamcop, my sites IP and I are thankfully not.
I guess the stupid SOBs thought we are behind an anonymous proxy or something because of the nature of the site (http://www.noCme.com) Damn, that V****a word is so badly blacklisted I'm pretty sure I must have not recieved some emails from pals that contained jokes with that word in it... :-( Lets all hope that spammers get leprosy and their main body parts fall off, if enough of us hope and think strong enough maybe our wish will come true :-) Cheers all, -Ryan http://Bestwebhosters.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ryan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Spamming bastardly problem, please help > Ryan A wrote: > > > Hi, > > Some son of a ***** is spamming people and using one or our websites as a > > return address, so all the emails that get bounced are coming right back to > > us, as you can imagine thats quite a lot, plus we are getting angry people > > writing to us. > > > > I had a look at the emails and I see its the usual crap: viagra, > > prescription meds and getting collage degrees etc > > > > What can I do about it? complaining to the sites that the spam is promoting > > is stupid since they are using this method to promote their crap.... > > > > Problem is we have a catch all address as the site is large and we have been > > using differient email ids all around the place which basically goes into > > one, so turning of the catch all can/would result in us missing some > > important stuff... > > > > ANY ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > -Ryan > > > > Same problem with my by-tor.com domain. First thing I checked was to > make sure that I wasn't an open relay...make sure the spammers aren't > using your mail server. Most of the headers are forged, so tracking > them down is almost impossible. And if you complain to the site that > these emails are linking too, they'll just say it's not them, but > someone in an affiliate program...they might even tell you that they > banned that user, but can't do anything about them sending the emails. > Basically, there's not much you can do save reply nicely to the people > who've come to you because they got spammed. > > -- > By-Tor.com > It's all about the Rush > http://www.by-tor.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
