Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:35:04 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Buck@buck-jones.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: spam spoofers Message-ID: <20040511230504.GC24013@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <MAEDLKJFEAIDNMOBPFJFIENGEOAA.Buck@buck-jones.com> References: <20040511161102.EYTJ3317.out006.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> <MAEDLKJFEAIDNMOBPFJFIENGEOAA.Buck@buck-jones.com>
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--qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 11 May 2004 at 9:34:25 -0700, Buck@buck-jones.com wrote: > > I am getting hundreds of spam with return addresses on it from MY server.. > the ip addresses are different and they didn't originate from my server . > now I am getting notices from AOL and other they are going to stop > excepting mail from me...while this is no loss to me, I see a problem > here... is there anyway to stop this, anyone to call,,,,anything to do? Spam's a universal problem, of course, and it'll be a while before the legislators catch up, though things are gradually happening. This particular issue is forgery, of course; I don't have much hope, but I have an AUP which attaches a charge of $25,000 per use of our name. I don't see a bat's chance in hell of seeing that money at the moment, but who knows what happens in the future? See http://www.lemis.com/aup.html for more details. Another thing you can try is SPF, the sender policy framework. It's a DNS extension that says where mail from you can come from. See http://spf.pobox.com/ for more details. AOL is using it: aol.com text = "v=spf1 ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all" I suspect that they would not block you if you have SPF DNS records. > I also have a woman getting mail from a sick person with the address > and return the same as her address. the police, FBI, are no help.. That may change. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFAoVwgIubykFB6QiMRAq19AJ9WwGRl1tDJV3C/PR1qy9TefWJBBgCYoPtz MsEGowLSUAvr4QAQ0KmN8A== =8uy/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz--
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