your using asp for your sign up script?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Omar Koudsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [imail] bot
>
> Does your signup script check for the refferer if its coming from your
site or from some other one? This should solve the problem of people talking
to your scripts directly
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> From: "fyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:00:43 -0800
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> >I figured it out
> >whats happening is there is a company that pays people to give them email
> >addresses so somebody is using a bot to make the email addtresses on one
of
> >my servers
> >
> >i blocked the server that was sending emails
> >
> >I have to figure out how to block or detect the bot
> >
> >deleting the email address is a bit too easy to do
> >
> >i need to figure and stop this whole process
> >
> >i do appreciate the dictionary suggestion ( I wiouldn't have thought of
> >that )
> >
> >-Fernando
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 12:41 PM
> >Subject: RE: [imail] bot
> >
> >
> >> > What the bot is doing is making emails that all point to the same
person
> >> > like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( completely new accounts )
I
> >> > thought that it was coming through on a telnet port but i dont have
that
> >> > enabled on my server
> >> > i want to get to the root of the problem and ( well i suppose you get
> >what
> >> > im trying to do here )
> >>
> >> Could it be that you have a "nobody" alias on the domains in question,
> >which
> >> WILL catch any [EMAIL PROTECTED] that comes in to your server, and
that
> >> some spammer is just doing a dictionary attack on you? If so, the
solution
> >> is as simple as removing all instances of aliases named "nobody".
> >>
> >> -ron
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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