On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:08:25 -0600 Michael Slavin wrote: >Nice, thanks. I'd add that I also do a traceroute on the sender's IP and >send abuse notification to the closest relaying isp as well, particularly >since many spammers now have IPs that don't look up to anything. This >characteristic, too, is used by some server applications: they won't >accept mail from IPs that don't look up to the same name they're >identified with. This is a nice feature but kills the server, very >resource intensive. Well, an open relay might land ones ISP in the ORBS database :) See... <http://www.orbs.org/> >revoked and identity blacklisted. BTW, Interarchy has some excellent >tools for effectuating this goal, including "traffic watching" which >reveals ICQ origin IPs as well, great way to finally convince fellows who >continually add you (or your wife) to their list so they get through the >positive filtering available there. Another nice of set of net-tools is IPNetmonitor from Sustainable Softworks... <http://www.sustworks.com/> ..which has an active author (Peter Sichel) who is always answering questions and solving problems. Not only on Sustworks' own mailing list, but on Usenet too! I just bought their latest offspring: IPNetSentry, a complete new approach to firewalls. Guess what? It works! :) Have fun, Hermie hdha at chello dot nl
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