From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 11 05:58:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA16569 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 05:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus.acpub.duke.edu (argus.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA16564 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 05:58:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from louis.ourway.com (async251-32.async.duke.edu [152.3.251.32]) by argus.acpub.duke.edu (8.8.4/Duke-4.2) with SMTP id IAA25952; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 08:50:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970411125055.006dd910@chem.duke.edu> X-Sender: reese@chem.duke.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 08:50:55 -0400 To: isp@freebsd.org From: Charles Reese Subject: Re: Stop relaying spam mail. Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk There are a number of newsgroups related to net abuse. They are classified as: news.admin.net-abuse..... You might want to have a look at the news.admin.net-abuse.email group. You can post what is going on there and should get some help. Cheers Charlie Reese At 05:03 PM 4/11/97 +1000, you wrote: >Are you using sendmail? >Apparently there's some documentation at >http://www.sendmail.org/ > >Complaining to his postmaster is also a good idea, also complain to abuse >as well if they've got it set up. Be polite :-) and they'll probably/maybe >help you, otherwise have a look at > >http://www.vix.com/spam/ >http://www.panix.com/e-spam.html >http://kryten.eng.monash.edu.au/gspam.html > >I think there's even somewhere you can report unhelpful isp's to (like a >blacklist) > >hope this helps >Andrew Perry >andrew@shoal.net.au > > > >> Is there any way to stop relay spam mails? The mail host >> of the ISP I am running becomes a favourite relay for a jerk. >> That guy sends thousands of mails from another site and uses >> our mail host as a relay. Worse, that guy uses fake addresses >> so that all flames and complaints go to our postmaster. My strategy >> for this is to block all mail from the site from which the mails >> originates, sent a complaining mail to his/her postermaster and >> *hope* the system adminstrator to do something about that. Is >> there any better way to deal with such situation? >> >> -Doug Kwan >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Charles E. Reese * * Durham, NC 27710 * Buy Sell Trade CDs * 919-660-1585 * NO MIDDLEMAN * 919-544-7217 * TOTALLY FREE * * http://trader.ourway.com * reese@chem.duke.edu * * -------------------------------------------------------------