Re: [SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread mikea
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:25:14PM -0500, David B Funk wrote: > 2) Virus/worm hijacked PCs. We're seeing lots of PCs on cable modems > that have "remote control" trojan/worms on them that are being > used by spammers as open proxies (for both SMTP & HTTP). > So you may be able to

Re: [SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: > OK, you all know I got the nasty email. You all know that my 'evilrules' has > to do with spam hosts. The ones that host the images. Well this seems to be > the way to attack the spammers. > [snip..] > Since many spammers are resorting to image spam, I

RE: [SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > If we start putting the squeeze on the image hosts, do you think that > spammers will then just start to embed the images within their email? > Certainly the bandwidth requirements become more costly then, but it doesn't > seem like that would be a ha

RE: [SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Chris Santerre Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:09 PM > OK, you all know I got the nasty email. You all know that my 'evilrules' has > to do with spam hosts. The ones that host the images. Well this seems to be > the way to attack the spammers. If we start putting the squeeze on the image hosts,