Hi
At 06:40 PM 3/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
>At 3:06 PM -0500 3/31/00, Dave Sill wrote:
>>Do the spammers:
>>
>> 1) throw up their hands and admit defeat, or
>> 2) start using valid (but wrong) domains in their envelope return
>> paths, thereby defeating your rejection and escalating the arms
>> race?
>>
>>Note that many are already doing (2), of course.
>
>I've had several emails using my @pobox.com address as the MAIL FROM
>bounced because spammers use phony @pobox.com addresses. I've never seen
>a single spam that originated on pobox's servers. Most of the spam I see
>comes from China or relay raped machines outside the US. And, of course,
>I've seen numerous pieces of spam with phony @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com,
>@aol.com, etc.
I own the pobox.co.za domain and am having the same problem. Someone is
spamming faking a rubbish source address from the @pobox.co.za domain. The
first line in the headers that gives any smtp info is
Received: from excite.com (209.203.247.83) by adv-www.advancedgroup.co.uk
(Worldmail 1.3.167); 1 Apr 2000 07:52:43 +0100
I am just getting the rejected emails that are sent to non-existent address
on the spammers send list, and that alone is in the hundreds of emails.
Can anyone suggest a way I can prevent this? Maybe it is time we blacklist
all free email domains.
Thanks
Michael
