>>> On 11/10/2012 at 8:51 AM, Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 07:50 -0500, Joseph Acquisto wrote: >> >>> On 11/10/2012 at 7:12 AM, Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org> wrote: >> >> After I posted, I went to put them on my local blacklist and saw that >> >> I had done this previously. I wonder why it was not caught. A >> >> Cron job does sa-update twice a day, so it is unlikely not to have >> >> been read. >> >> >> > Don't forget that spamd is stopped and restarted during the daily >> > update. Could the message's arrival coincide with this? >> > >> > Is your local blacklist also taken down while it is being updated and/or >> > backed up? >> >> Guess so, only using local.cf >> >> > Mine isn't because I implement it with what I call a >> > 'portmanteau rule', a single rule with several hundred alternative >> > patterns. In this case the rule is looking for URI matches in message >> > bodies because it was written to clean the message stream from a >> > spam-laden mailing list: blacklists etc simply don't work in this >> > situation because the headers relate to messages sent from the >> > listserv. >> >> That's something I need to look at, I guess. >> > The major downside is the pain of editing a single Kchars long line, so > I wrote a fairly simple-minded script that uses gawk to transform a more > easily editable source file, e.g. it puts each pattern on a separate > line, into a validly formatted SA rule. Details are here: > > http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/portmanteau/portmanteau.tgz > >> AFA the CANSPAM thing goes, we shall see. I only found a link to a >> rather generic FTC complaint form, which I filled out, without much >> sense of fulfillment. >> > Can you post a URL for that, please. > > > Martin
I first found this: http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business Which has a link to: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ Which has some other info and finally leads to: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en I soon got a confirmation that the complaint was received. "Complaint Submitted Thank you for contacting the FTC. Your complaint has been entered into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to thousands of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies worldwide. Your reference number is:xxxxx " joe a.
