on Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:52:31PM -0700, Paul Johnson (baloo@ursine.ca) wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> > It reports spam to the usual suspects. Starting with postmaster/abuse
> > addresses, if known. Then IP / domain WHOIS contacts, abuse.net
> > contacts, and the like. You can create a list of undeliverable contacts
> > not to try (I post same to news.admin.net-abuse.email, aka NANAE). It
> > posts a notice with information on the offending IP to
> > news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, which may be of use to various parties.
> >
> > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Download/SpamTools.tar.gz
>
> Do you intend to package?
Not before it does significantly better at handling edge conditions than
it currently does.
I developed this for my own personal use. I'm interested in feedback
and/or fixes. I'd consider this about 0.2 level software. It mostly
works to do a basic task. It needs babysitting. It can be used
maliciously. It makes my initial task easier.
I wouldn't consider packaging for broader distribution util it:
- Runs without babysitting.
- Intelligently avoids mailing list LARTs.
- Has better back-end response datagathering capabilities (bounces).
- Has some rudimentary abuse avoidance mitigation.
- Has integrated logging (currently it's based on piping stdout to an
arbitrary file).
- Is generalized for mailbox format (which probably requires rewriting
in A Real Language).
I'd also like it to have better tools for RFC-Ignorant submissions for
postmaster / abuse / whois / ipwhois categories.
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
The support contract said RHEL 3.0 or better, so I installed Debian
- Peter Samuelson
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