Re: spamcop

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Cameron L. Spitzer <cls@truffula.sj.ca.us>:
>  [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
>  In article <70hHI-4qF-1@gated-at.bofh.it>, s. keeling wrote:
> > Mumia W.. <paduille.4058.mumia.w@earthlink.net>:
> >>  On 09/28/2006 12:23 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> > [...]
> >> > also, threadjacking, but its spam related... is anyone else getting a
> >> > lot of these "bounced email" spam? I'm getting a TON of it lately. It
> >> > all has a .zip or .com binary attachment, so obviously its a virus or
> >> 
> >>  I've gotten a couple of such messages with the virus removed.
> >
> > Follow it up.  Complain to the bouncer that their SMTP is
> > misconfigured and they're sending bounce messages to innocent third
> > parties whose From: addresses were forged by spammers.
> 
>  My experience has been that anyone clueless enough in 2006
>  to run a broken server (Barracuda appliance, Qmail...), that
>  sends backscatter to random addresses supplied by spammers
>  and malware, is too clueless to understand a complaint
>  about it.  If you can even get a complaint through.

I feel your pain.

>  Look their domain up in whois -h whois.abuse.net.

Thanks.

>  postmaster (default, no info) every time.  Send mail to
>  postmaster@domain and abuse@domain.  User unknown, or
>  sorry, your spam report triggered our spam filter.

Schmucks.

>  Not just clueless, clue resistant.  Clue repellent.
>  Report them to RFC-Ignorant.org when that happens.  
>  Then add them to your local DNSBL if you can get away with it.
>  Or your firewall.

ACK.  Thanks.


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