Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o
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Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 19:20, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>>> Out of curiosity, how do you go about reporting it?
>>
>> Find where it *really* came from by searching through the complete
>> headers and making sure everything checks out to avoid being duped by
>> forged headers. email <hostname>@abuse.net to let them know they're
>> spamming.
>>
>> Then, go through the message, find any email addresses they want you
>> to reply to. Email abuse@<isp> and postmaster@<isp> to let them know
>> a spammer is using their services as a dropbox.
>>
>> Then, go through the message and find spamvertized sites and find out
>> who is hosting them and email abuse@<webhost> and let them know
>> they've got a spammer running a site with them.
>
> Isn't this exactly what SpamCop (which you said in another post you use)
> does for you, more or less automatically?
Yes.
> I can't believe anybody has time to sift through e-mail headers
> manually to do all this. Why not recommend subscribing to SpamCop
> and forwarding the spam to the reporting address?
They asked about the method, not the shortcut.
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Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.ca>
Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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