Re: [IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-07 Thread R. Scott Perry
About ten years ago we changed our ISP and got a new block of IPs to use. Our domain name stayed the same. The old ISP never cleaned out the contact information on the old block of IPS. Apparently someone is now spamming through our old block of IPs. Anyone doing a whois on the old block

Re: [IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-07 Thread Dale McDiarmid
Thank you Scott. As always, I appreciate your straight answers. Happy Holidays, D. At 04:52 AM 12/7/2004, you wrote: About ten years ago we changed our ISP and got a new block of IPs to use. Our domain name stayed the same. The old ISP never cleaned out the contact information on the old block

Re: [IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-07 Thread Matt
I'm afraid to say that this person is in fact in danger of being blacklisted. I run a private blacklist with 6 return codes and over 1 million IP's that were manually collected (in blocks), and will frequently tag all space related to a particular spammer. So if I looked up one block in ARIN

Re: [IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Foresman
We appreciate your work and all the other blacklists out there but we better come up with some new plays because we're losing this game. The fact that we have to setup and maintain all this is ridiculous and we spend more and more time on it as this goes on. I think targeting the spammer

Re: [IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-07 Thread Matt
Bill, I guess that I don't feel so distraught because I now do this as a business and I feel that it is also quite redeeming work. I do understand that most administrators aren't in the same boat and it does in fact take a good deal of work and understanding to do a decent job. Nevertheless,

Re: [IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Foresman
I just think that the courts take too long with everything they do. Implementing the death penalty takes 15 years so how would a spammer even hit the radar screen. I think the only justice we will have is what we do for ourselves. I'm disappointed that the Lycos SCR didn't take off because I

Re: [IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-07 Thread Matt
The problem isn't the courts, it's the police. There is no enforcement, and you need an organization of some sort to do this. As far as Lycos is concerned, I'm not a fan of vigilantism of this type, and it is often illegal to employ such tactics. If you would just imagine how many spam bots

[IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-06 Thread Dale McDiarmid
Hello... About ten years ago we changed our ISP and got a new block of IPs to use. Our domain name stayed the same. The old ISP never cleaned out the contact information on the old block of IPS. Apparently someone is now spamming through our old block of IPs. Anyone doing a whois on the old