Re: [cobalt-users] slightly OT.. but worth a thought or two... Fw: Make money fast! -- By trapping spammers with trespass charges

["Charles Williams" <hosting.mailing.list.account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: <flash22@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] slightly OT.. but worth a thought or two... Fw:
Make money fast! -- By trapping spammers with trespass charges


> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, SteelHead wrote:
>
> > this is likley better for the "web-hosting" list. but I think it affects
all
> > of us that serve email to our own domains.. so here it is anyway.
Thanks
>
> Not to shoot you down or anything, but, what percentage of spam do you get
> where you can actually identify the original sender -/
>
> That's the problem with these 'go legal' responses, you can't do a dammed
> thing when the spam goes through some anonymous relay in a country you
> never even heard of,much less which has any kind of method by which you
> can enforce trivial litigation in.
>
> Heck , i just got spam from a fellow who has an open mail relay that he's
> very likely not going to fix, as a search for his name turned up the fact
> he is now apparenty in federal prison....I'm not waiting around for himto
> get out to fix his server -/
>
> I now won't even bother blocking anything smaller than a /24 , i truely
> don't care anymore, if they are on the relay list or in spews , they are
> gone from the access list ;0
>
> 2c
>
> gsh
>

That's why WIPOC was started.  When it is ready then we can handle this
without having to block (manually) an entire /24 the offending IP will be
blocked automatically and permenantly until the situation is corrected.

http://www.wipoc.org