Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:36:07 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> To: Licia <licia@o-o.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing List Spam [ wasRe: Read this, and use appropriately...] Message-ID: <19990105183607.A6277@tidalwave.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990105171651.18204B-100000@o-o>; from Licia on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:19:26PM -0600 References: <19990106094420.Z78349@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990105171651.18204B-100000@o-o>
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On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:19:26PM -0600, Licia wrote:
>
> If I configure my system to bounce mailling list messages from spammers,
> how would that likely affect the systems (and my subscriptions?)
>
> Should I simply add a "bit bucket" option to Bouncer to accept the mail and
> dump it to nowhere instead of bouncing it?
I think we can nip this in the bud at the source. I checked the headers, and
the spam is coming from what appears to be a personal account (natch) on
Earthlink. The relevant info is here:
Received: from htxgxvqm.getmoretraffic.com (CBL-panamerican.hs.earthlink.net
+[208.233.115.216])
by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA20058
for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:26:15 -0800 (PST)
(envelope-from getmoretraffic@getmoretraffic.com)
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