Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:43:43PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from David Jardine:
> >
> > What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just
>
> I get bounces from clueless mail admins all the time. If they'd spend
> two seconds scanning the original's Received: headers, they'd know I
> had nothing to do with it. Blast it back to those fools and tell them
> to read email headers, and turn off their idiotic mail-bot until they
> do (if at all).
The messages I've been receiving (was receiving - I haven't had any
today - perhaps they're using your address now) were polite
(automated, I imagine) statements of inabilty to deliver the message
- no accusations of spamming. There must be masses of email flying
around all the time with mis-typed addresses; isn't the appropriate
response to return it to the apparent sender? That's a real question,
not a rhetorical one.
The worry I had was about the reject messages I didn't get. If the
Peoria Inter-Denominational College of Neo-Tibetan Goldfish Juggling
received thirty of my dollops of spam, who else was getting them and
was I being put on blacklists by, well, "clueless mail admins" and
"fools" with "idiotic mail-bots"?
I would gladly help to educate the people I do get reject messages
from, but what exactly do I tell them?
> Spammers are forging From: addresses, have been for at least a year,
> and anyone who looks at mail headers can see whether it's been done.
> Spamcop isn't fooled by moronic tricks like this. It drills down and
> finds the real culprit.
This message comes to you with a forged From: address courtesy of the
rewrite rules in /etc/exim/exim.conf. Excuse me, there was a knock
on the door. Must be Spamcop...
If you don't get a message then you'll know I'm in jail.
David
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David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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