Re: OT: Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-12 Thread Ben Kamen
I reached the same. Make sure my systems are buttoned down... Let the ISP's care when other ISP's start firewalling then because they care so much about hackers on their own network. And actually, Dave, I don't mean to argue, but the people I talked to probably couldn't spell TCP/IP... I'm not

OT: Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-12 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Ben Kamen wrote: > I called Ameritech when someone was trying to hack sendmail on my server and > they did absolutely -0-. Nothing. Nada. Zippo.. the Big Zed. > They don't care. > They don't know enough to care. I don't think that's necessarily true. I think it's more like

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-12 Thread Ben Kamen
I called Ameritech when someone was trying to hack sendmail on my server and they did absolutely -0-. Nothing. Nada. Zippo.. the Big Zed. They don't care. They don't know enough to care. I complained to the Illinois Commerce Commission. They actually wrote back saying SBC/Ameritech tried contact

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-11 Thread Ben Kamen
Heheh, isn't anyone else doing this? I would imagine so... On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > Now you just need to add a signed peer2peer networking scheme so that > you can share that info with hosts that are also on the network and then > 4. profit. > ___

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Smoogen
Now you just need to add a signed peer2peer networking scheme so that you can share that info with hosts that are also on the network and then 4. profit. On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Ben Kamen wrote: > >Boy, as I sit here and watch the spammers try to > >A: use me as a relay (same IP, multiple tries)

RE: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-11 Thread Scott Harris
> > > I know there's probably ways to do this.. I'd just have to sit down > > and do it.. but don't have the time... > > > > But don't you guys and gals get mad when you see some > pathetic loser > > try and bash the doors down to your mail server?? > > > Yeah, just want to route them out

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-11 Thread Ben Kamen
Stephen Smoogen wrote: On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Ben Kamen wrote: Well, I did it last night - I wrote an event driven TCL script that watches the mail log for sendmail's "RCPT Flood" message and then blackholes the IP address... then, after a user specified time limit, it will remove the blackho

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Smoogen
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Ben Kamen wrote: >Well, I did it last night - I wrote an event driven TCL script that >watches the mail log for sendmail's "RCPT Flood" message and then >blackholes the IP address... then, after a user specified time limit, it >will remove the blackhole automatically. Any a

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-11 Thread Ben Kamen
Well, I did it last night - I wrote an event driven TCL script that watches the mail log for sendmail's "RCPT Flood" message and then blackholes the IP address... then, after a user specified time limit, it will remove the blackhole automatically. Any add/delete actions are saved in a text file

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-09 Thread SRAR Mail Administrator
On Apr 8, 2004, at 6:41 PM, Ben Kamen wrote: Boy, as I sit here and watch the spammers try to A: use me as a relay (same IP, multiple tries) B: scan for usernames C: try and deliver to bogus names I've used on the net I would love to have a hook in mimedefang to auto-blackhole these IP's... kind

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-09 Thread Ben Kamen
That's pretty funny... actually.. Now that I think about it, I might have a TCL script that with some modification could probably do this for me... I think I might look into it this weekend... heheh.. thanks! -Ben Stefano McGhee wrote: I would love to have a hook in mimedefang to auto-blackh

RE: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-09 Thread Stefano McGhee
> I would love to have a hook in mimedefang to auto-blackhole these > IP's... kinda like the greylisting where the entry times out after a > while.. but after so many misses, the IP gets null-routed... > > I know there's probably ways to do this.. I'd just have to > sit down and > do it.. but

Re: [Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-09 Thread Daniel Taylor
Ben Kamen wrote: Boy, as I sit here and watch the spammers try to A: use me as a relay (same IP, multiple tries) B: scan for usernames C: try and deliver to bogus names I've used on the net I would love to have a hook in mimedefang to auto-blackhole these IP's... kinda like the greylisting where

[Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

2004-04-08 Thread Ben Kamen
Boy, as I sit here and watch the spammers try to A: use me as a relay (same IP, multiple tries) B: scan for usernames C: try and deliver to bogus names I've used on the net I would love to have a hook in mimedefang to auto-blackhole these IP's... kinda like the greylisting where the entry times o