On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:40:17AM -0500, Billy Huddleston wrote: > I'm getting some new spam coming through.. It's ASCII art (using nothing but > numbers) and spells out TORA.08 and nothing else.. > > It looks to be coming from a Bot-Net.. Anyone seen this? > > Thanks, Billy
Yes, one of my virtual mailboxes just got one. Came from impsat.net.ar. I sent off a nastygram to the network admin. <somewhat off-topic> Speaking of which, I have a policy such that if I have to deal with a piece of spam, I use whois to find the abuse reporting point for the network the zombie is on, and send them a copy of the spam, headers and all. Am I spitting (to use a nicer term) in the ocean, or is it worthwhile? In particular, this is an issue with a closed mailing list I manage, which, alas, is not on my server, so I have no control over how the MTA is set up. So I get (as of a couple of days ago) 40 or 50 spams per day I have to "moderate". So if I have to deal with it, the spammer pays with (I hope) a shutdown zombie. In case the spammer is reading this, it's hammered_dulcimers (at) lists.fmp.com. </somewhat off-topic> Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com "Where you go in the hereafter depends on what you were after here." - Thanks to Graffiti, 2 March 2004
