Re: Tarpit SPAM trap

2000-03-02 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:08 AM 3/2/00 +0200, I. Forbes wrote: >To give you an idea of the scope of the problem we have received >about eleven thousand bounces with the same forged address over >the last month. All of the Spam was launced from AOL, and relayed >using a whole list of open relays - many in Eastern E

RE: [Exim] Tarpit SPAM trap

2000-03-02 Thread Philipp Gaschütz
> We send copies of this spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on a daily basis. > The only response I have ever had from AOL is from an > autoresponder. hmm... >From my experience AOL has always been quite cooperative in such cases, though we always called them directly when there was a major spam problem..

Re: Tarpit SPAM trap

2000-03-02 Thread Smoerk
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:08:20 +0200, I. Forbes wrote: >Hello All > >A professional spammer is using a forged "From:" header line >which quotes a non existant address at one of our domains. Every >spam he sends to a bad address gets bounced to us. We are >running qmail, which by default, accepts

Re: [Exim] Tarpit SPAM trap

2000-03-02 Thread Nigel Metheringham
[I am somewhat concerned about the size of the cc list - in that it covers several lists - but for now have let it stand since this is more than just an exim issue] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > We send copies of this spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on a daily basis. The > only response I have ever had

Tarpit SPAM trap

2000-03-02 Thread I. Forbes
Hello All A professional spammer is using a forged "From:" header line which quotes a non existant address at one of our domains. Every spam he sends to a bad address gets bounced to us. We are running qmail, which by default, accepts these bounces then handles them as "double bounces". To