Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:34:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: I KINDLY NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE Message-ID: <20020806212747.K86473-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <861y9bpir3.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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On 6 Aug 2002, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > Ganesh Kumar <alganesh@m-net.arbornet.org> writes: > | But the problem is with "communication". When I was taking care of mail > | servers, we got spam(and email bombs too) from a particular webhost. But > | making the admin understand our problem was a pain for me ! (bcos, it > | originated from taiwan ) > > In most cases, I don't block unless there's a significant problem getting the > offending ISP to take the complaint seriously. After blocking some fifty or > sixty hosts in South Korea and China, I finally had to get proactive. It's not > really up to me to convince them that there's a problem; I figure if their > customers can't send mail where they wish, that eventually they'll realize that > *they* have a problem that needs to be addressed. > > Nobody likes being on an isolated intranet, and I think that should be the > natural consequence of being an inconsiderate netizen. > > | If someone can block the legitimate spams to the list (from freebsd group) > | atleast and prevent mails from that address alone ,would save us :) > > Well, I don't think the FreeBSD lists should necessarily be as aggressive about Hello - just wanted to chime in my two-cents, seeing as this thread has an ALL CAPS Subject line *sarcastic, cynical grin* It isn't so much a matter of our beloved list(s) becoming aggressive, per se, but I think with so much cool technology and CGI coding techniques, you'd think there would be a way to strike out spams as you go to read your Inbox, if not block receipt of them. Was that at all clear? For example, I just glimpsed two emails in a row on this list about COPYING DVDS INSTANTLY or some crap. I wish there were a way for list members to go to the FreeBSD website and mail lists area, enter their own email address, copy/paste the entire line of the "Message-ID:" (because all spams have one I assume), then click a submit button saying something like [Start a Spam Report]. The cgi script would email a one-time token, either a URL for the reporter to click on or some kind of long mangled horribly unique subject line for the reporter to reply back with. > spam as I've been---but I have to admit that I wouldn't mind. If I were a > customer of some ISP, and I lost a valuable resource because my ISP was > ineffective at controlling spam from their site, I'd switch ISPs. Eventually, > the ISP would get the hint. ISPs do not get the hint. I worked at one (good one) for nearly three years and we constantly dealt with OTHER sites that were terribly lax. A dollar is a dollar. :( PS - Oops, this isn't directly about FreeBSD questions, apologies. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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