Re: [OFFTOPIC] Spamcop

[Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:

> This is one of the reasons why spammers are depending less on
> open relays and more on open proxies and cracked boxes nowadays.
>
> Some spammers have even spread around worms to automatically open
> up root (well, Admini~r) holes on machines, or just installing
> programs to automagically spread their spam.
>
> > Has anyone seen this in the wild?
>
> Yes. I've already gotten spam "from":
> - myself, various addresses (ha, but I'm not going to blacklist me)
> - bill davidson
> - stephen tweedie
> - ben lahaise
> - various other lkml inhabitants
>

I blacklisted myself.. I seem to catch nothing but spam that way.

	Gerhard

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