Re: Spam impersonating me (was Re: Spam: the last straw)
> > Any idea how I can make this person stop? Is there some place I can
> > report stuff like this?
>
<snip>
> >
> > Received: from 38.210.6.214 (38.210.6.214) by midnet.co.uk with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.0.3); Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:55:06 +0100
>
> This is a point of origin for the message.
>
> 38.210.6.214 (you want the value from parenthesis, it's the
> reverse-lookup value, and may differ from the announced value) resolves
> to PSI.NET's netblock:
>
> $ whois 38.210.6.214
>
Cool, didn't know 'whois' took IPs... nslookup wasn't very useful on
that IP address.
> PSI is a large provider and has had longstanding issues with spam, to
> some extent, unavoidable.
>
True. I'm not necessarily faulting the ISP the mail's being routed
through (midnet.co.uk?) or originating from (although having mail relay
enabled in this day and age is almost inexcusable *sp*).
> I'd post to abuse@psi.net and report the issue. There's not a whole lot
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do you know this is the correct address to send complaints to or are you
just assuming the "abuse" part? If so, where did you find it?
> else you can do, AFAIK. Might help to get some sort of information to
> send those who decide to retaliate on your spam by mailbombing you or
> worse. This is a lesson for those who would advocate such tactics:
> mailbombing frequently misses the target and generates "collateral
> damage". I use tools to report spam to originating netblocks and
> referenced URLs/emails in payload, for disposition. spam.pl and
> ricochet from Freshmeat are useful tools.
Thanks, I'll check those out.
P.S. I was informed off-list that the debian-user list policy prohibits
the use of symbols to represent profanity. I'm ashamed to say that I
wasn't aware of this and apologize to anyone who may've been offended by
my use of such "obscured cussing" at the beginning of my message... I was
kind of ticket off when I wrote it.
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