Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:24:26 -0700 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: This Chancellor Group spam Message-ID: <199607242324.QAA01921@kithrup.com>
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Okay, look, folks... first of all, I think it's a fair bet to say that
I've got the most experience dealing with this type of crap ;).
Second: the moneyworld spam has been going on for a long, long time.
As a result, by the time he got kicked off of his fourth or fifth
IP provider, he no longer accepted email on his system.
Third: he currently has two IP providers, BBN Planet and
MCI. MCI says they will terminate his access on August 21 or 23
(I forget which exactly, sorry). They claim they cannot do so earlier
due to contractual reasons. (However, they are also looking into other
ways to deal with this.) Note that the Web site he is pllugging is
hooked up to Best. As a result, complain to Best, BBN Planet, and
MCI -- postmaster@best.net, postmaster@bbnplanet.net, and abuse@mci.net.
Fourth: For this particular one, there's another address that some
people have suggested: enforcement@sec.gov. That's the Securities and
Exchange Commission, part of the US Gov't. I would suggest no more than
one note to them. If you're *really* angry, call teh SEC and voice a
complaint -- there is a reasonable chance that what this guy is doing is
illegal in the eyes of teh SEC, which would mean lots of problems for
him.
In the meanwhile, you can install procmail on your FreeBSD system as
the local mail deliveryagent by replacing the Mlocal lines with:
Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/procmail, F=lsDFMrmn, S=10, R=20/40,
A=procmail -a $h -d $u
Then, in $HOME/.procmailrc, you can put something like:
:0:
* ^From:.*moneyworld.com
|mail -s "stop this crap now" abuse@mci.net
I also, when I saw this message on the hackers list, sent a note to
postmaster@freebsd.org asking them to block this at the sendmail level,
if they could.
In the meanwhile, PLEASE DON'T DISCUSS THIS ON THE LIST. (I know I'm
violating that request here, but since I mention ways to work around it,
that involve hacking yoru freebsd system, I think it's at least marginally
relevant ;).)
Sean.
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