Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/04/2010 20:31:06, John wrote: I have done a monkey-simple spam trap. It just so happens that I have a dozen or more user accounts that haven't been actually used in over five years and get dozens of spam hits every day. I had been just

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-28 Thread John
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:59:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/04/2010 20:31:06, John wrote: I have done a monkey-simple spam trap. It just so happens that I have a dozen or more user accounts that haven't been actually used in over

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-28 Thread John
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:00:27PM -0500, John wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:59:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/04/2010 20:31:06, John wrote: I have done a monkey-simple spam trap. It just so happens that I have a dozen

Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread John
I have done a monkey-simple spam trap. It just so happens that I have a dozen or more user accounts that haven't been actually used in over five years and get dozens of spam hits every day. I had been just sending them all to /dev/null with a sendmail alias. It seems to me

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
John == John j...@starfire.mn.org writes: John (Obviously, I'll want to add to my cron scripts to age entries out John of the spammers table, just to keep it down to a manageable size. John I already have two dozen entries.) You'll have a lot of collateral damage. I've worked with a lot of

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 27/04/2010 20:31, John wrote: This seems to be working pretty well, and I'll eventually take the print statement out, but I'm not sure why I had to make /dev/pf public read/write in order to get the pfctl command to work. What is the best solution to be able to add to my spammers table in

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread John
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 08:46:41PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 27/04/2010 20:31, John wrote: This seems to be working pretty well, and I'll eventually take the print statement out, but I'm not sure why I had to make /dev/pf public read/write in order to get the pfctl command to work.

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread John
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: John == John j...@starfire.mn.org writes: John (Obviously, I'll want to add to my cron scripts to age entries out John of the spammers table, just to keep it down to a manageable size. John I already have two dozen

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread John
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: John == John j...@starfire.mn.org writes: John (Obviously, I'll want to add to my cron scripts to age entries out John of the spammers table, just to keep it down to a manageable size. John I already have two dozen

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
John == John j...@starfire.mn.org writes: John Grr. I just expired the first address, at four hours old, and John IMMEDIATELY got a bunch Pfizer spams that were just delayed... John This is certainly not an easy nut to crack. If it were easy, they wouldn't need entire teams of people at

SPAM Trap

2005-12-23 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have been reading about SPAM Traps. Exactly what is a SPAM Trap? I noticed that it seems to be used in conjunction with blacklisting organizations. How would one go about setting up one? -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dilbert's Law: Everyone is somebody's else's

Re: SPAM Trap

2005-12-23 Thread RW
On Friday 23 December 2005 17:12, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have been reading about SPAM Traps. Exactly what is a SPAM Trap? I noticed that it seems to be used in conjunction with blacklisting organizations. How would one go about setting up one? AFAIK it's just a set of email accounts

Re: SPAM Trap

2005-12-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have been reading about SPAM Traps. Exactly what is a SPAM Trap? I noticed that it seems to be used in conjunction with blacklisting organizations. How would one go about setting up one? The simplest case is to set up some email

Re: SPAM Trap

2005-12-23 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 12/23/05 12:12 PM, Gerard Seibert sat at the `puter and typed: I have been reading about SPAM Traps. Exactly what is a SPAM Trap? I noticed that it seems to be used in conjunction with blacklisting organizations. How would one go about setting up one? Ahh, spam. A subject near