Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-22 Thread Butch Kemper
At 12:21 -0500 on 6/21/97, Vebj¯rn Forsmo wrote: > John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If so, how do I stop it? > > There is a set of patches for Sendmail that allow it to do this, > you can use BlackMail as a spam-filter, or install qmail > (http://www.qmail.org/) which has a reaso

Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-21 Thread Vebjørn Forsmo
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The last entry is the first reference to this piece of mail in my > logs! Is it possible for someone to use their compuserve account to > send mail to my daemon that instructs it to run the bulk mailout? Yes. It is very easy to use a standard mailhost as

Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paul Wade wrote: > > The problem of "relaying" can be solved by restricting access to the local > subnet. However, that would irritate some good customers. Suppose I am > traveling with my laptop and want to read and answer my email. I don't > want to pay for a toll call to the dialup because I ca

Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 07:50:01AM +1000, John Foster wrote: > This post is probably a bit off topic, but maybe one of you can give > me a pointer in the right direction. > > I'm looking after the servers of an ISP, and someone is using us for > bulk mailouts. > > I get a lot of mail in postmaste

Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-20 Thread Paul Wade
The problem of "relaying" can be solved by restricting access to the local subnet. However, that would irritate some good customers. Suppose I am traveling with my laptop and want to read and answer my email. I don't want to pay for a toll call to the dialup because I can hook up via ethernet or m