Re: Re: [LI] spamcop / Saraswati - from Dinesh Shah

["Shanker R Swaminathan" <CseWhiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the pointers. But how do you discourage e-mail sent from public
sites . The mail which started all this was from Bluemountain , which is a
free e-greeting service. NO header etc from the person sending the mail
would ever be sent.
Even if you send a complaint to the postmaster of this service,
supplimentary action would be dependant on that end. My question is , what
do you do in such cases. ( for spam hitting personal mailboxes)
The time has come , i think, for Linux -India to become a closed list.
Perhaps an automated script to check out that the sender is a member of this
list would help ? How about that (thats) ? At least problems of this nature
can be nipped in the bud. I think most of the city chapters maintain closed
lists (My list - Ilug-cal does)
Shanker

----- Original Message -----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <Suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [LI] spamcop / Saraswati - from Dinesh Shah


> On 12 Nov 99, at 19:06, thus spake Shanker R Swaminathan:
>
> > Just what is this rubbish doing Here. I'd call it Spam !Any such
> > spammers on the list  need to have their messages sent to spamcop.
> > That is the only treatment they deserve. Shanker
>
> Uhhh... spamcop is a (not very efficient) web based tool to help you
> identify forged headers in spams and send complaints to the open
> relay, the actual dialup etc etc.  If you can read headers yourself -
> no use re spamcop.
>
> It is not some sort of global watchdog which searches spammers out
> and murders them in their sleep :-)
>
> Complain to the postmaster and abuse addresses (which must exist -
>  as per an RFC I can't remember now) of
>
> 1. The originating dialup  (say vsnl / satyam - for vsnl try something
> like helpdesk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or whatever)
>
> 2. The open relay if transmitted through one.
>
> 3. Any dropboxes (free email boxes set up to recv spam responses)
> -  abuse@xxxxxxxxxxx / abuse@xxxxxxxxx etc
>
> 4. Upstreams of any websites mentioned (do a whois search and
> identify the upstreams / dns providers etc).
>
> Send a complaint to all those and get the guy disconnected.
>
> Visit -
>
> http://www.cauce.org
>
> http://spam.abuse.net
>
> http://www.free.org
>
> http://www.samspade.org (web based tools to trace spammers)
>
> for more details
>
> --s
>
>
>
>
>
> Suresh Ramasubramanian, CAUCE India
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