On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Tim Thorpe wrote: > 95% of spam comes through relays and its headers are forged tracking an > E-mail back that you've received is becoming next to impossible, its also > very time consuming and why waste your time on scumbags?
s/relays/proxies/ The proxies are tough to find since they can run on any port. Some of them even pick random ports, then "phone home" to tell the spammer which IP/port was just created as one of their open proxies. > my idea; > a DC network that actively scans for active relays and tests them, it > compiles a list on a daily basis of compromised IP addresses (or even > addresses that are willingly allowing the relay) making this list freely > available to ISPs via a secure and tracked site. You're a few years late. See http://dsbl.org. For a non-DC version, see http://njabl.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
