Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's another side of the problem. However, my original point still stands - blacklisting by small sites (even in large numbers) is unlikely to have much of an impact on the large broadband providers who do nothing about the garbage spewing from their

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:52:31PM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It reports spam to the usual suspects. Starting with postmaster/abuse addresses, if known. Then IP / domain WHOIS contacts, abuse.net contacts, and the like. You

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:03:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Unfortunately, blacklisting is a much more realistic solution than wholesale user education, so yes, blacklisting such providers is probably the only workable solution. Unfortunately the

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Increase? What increase? What spam? http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/antispam_postfix/ Apparently at: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/antispam-postfix/ Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Adam Aube wrote: If several large sites wholesale blacklisted major broadband providers Emphasis on large - it would take several sites approaching the size of AOL or MSN to make a difference. You mean the very same companies that are perpetuating the behavior themselves as well as

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-07 Thread Adam Aube
Steve Lamb wrote: Adam Aube wrote: If several large sites wholesale blacklisted major broadband providers Emphasis on large - it would take several sites approaching the size of AOL or MSN to make a difference. You mean the very same companies that are perpetuating the behavior

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:49:56AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:18:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whilst generally I wouldn't resort to flamage, your statement above is of such great ignorance that

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Adam Aube
Steve Lamb wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Unfortunately, blacklisting is a much more realistic solution than wholesale user education, so yes, blacklisting such providers is probably the only workable solution. Unfortunately the reality is unless the blacklisted each other it wouldn't work. If

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:49:56AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:18:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Spammer... *plonk* And once again you show the maturity of a spoiled six year old on an internationally distributed mailing list.