Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-11-01 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 31 October 2003 09:38 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:17:50 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The answer however, is not to reject everything out of hand and adopt the position that no law can be useful. Unless you recognize that laws *create disorder*

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-11-01 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:40:51 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Cute little sayings like this are relatively meaningless to me. Anarchy would be far worse for all of us than even over-the-top government. Laws are an absolute necessity without which there can be no social

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-11-01 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:55 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:40:51 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Cute little sayings like this are relatively meaningless to me. Anarchy would be far worse for all of us than even over-the-top government. Laws are an

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-11-01 Thread Aronsmith
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:19, Margot wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:50:10 + Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: boys, that should be singular. I didn't call anyone's opinion shrill, silly, or other such things. Up to that point it was a fairly civil

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-11-01 Thread Margot
Aronsmith wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:19, Margot wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:50:10 + Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: boys, that should be singular. I didn't call anyone's opinion shrill, silly, or other such things. Up to that point it was a fairly civil

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-11-01 Thread Aronsmith
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:07, Margot wrote: Aronsmith wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:19, Margot wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:50:10 + Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: boys, that should be singular. I didn't call anyone's opinion shrill, silly,

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread Tango Echo
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:24 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: With the tarpit, you rig your mail server to accept the connection attempt but then receive the traffic e v e r s os l o w l y, What about the legal

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 31 October 2003 08:40 am, Tango Echo wrote: --- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:24 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: With the tarpit, you rig your mail server to accept the connection attempt but then receive the traffic e v e r s o

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:53:00 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You actually think that a spammer is going to take you to court and argue to the judge, Your Honor, I was attempting to access a computer resource without proper authorization and it didn't respond as quickly as I

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread Tango Echo
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 08:40 am, Tango Echo wrote: What about the legal consequences of using a tar pit? I can't possibly see what kind of legal consequences could follow. Someone is connecting to your server voluntarily and using your

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:17:25 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I would suggest that you look into the legality of having an operating network tarpit in your state. Tarpit? What tarpit? Oh, was my computer doing that? I had n idea! LOL! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 31 October 2003 09:17 am, Tango Echo wrote: Yes, I do actually. Bryan, your problem is you are too rational =). In this upside down world we live in, and an even more more upside down US legal system (plz, no OT flames) anything is possible. I've heard of cases where a theif fell

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 31 October 2003 09:17 am, Tango Echo wrote: Ah! Here is the reference: http://www.hackbusters.net While it's possible it may deal directly with his LaBrea tar pit program, it appears to hinge around the tar pit technology. Here's a quote from the site: Quote: This section of the

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:57:04 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The fact is that tortured readings of laws and paranoid ravings about the possible clueless applications of laws does not do the tech community any service. It makes us all appear to be unreasonable and unwilling to

RE: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread Tango Echo
Ah! Here is the reference: http://www.hackbusters.net While it's possible it may deal directly with his LaBrea tar pit program, it appears to hinge around the tar pit technology. Here's a quote from the site: Quote: This section of the Illinois Criminal Code was added on

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 31 October 2003 11:29 am, HaywireMac wrote: Relying on politicians and lawyers to protect us has never served us well in the past, I see no reason to expect anything different for the future. The answer however, is not to reject everything out of hand and adopt the position that no

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 31 October 2003 11:38 am, Tango Echo wrote: Well, I am not a resident of Illinois, therefore, this particular criminal code does not apply to me. Good, but you might want to check these states too: http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/ I might check the laws, not someone's

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 05:40:27 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the legal consequences of using a tar pit? Seems I remember reading something about that several months back... Or perhaps they were just questioning it becuause the TP acted as some kind of DoS attack

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:57:04 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This response actually brings up something that has been bugging me of late about some elements of the tech community. I realize that there are a large number of clueless politicians and lawyers out there but

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:17:50 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The answer however, is not to reject everything out of hand and adopt the position that no law can be useful. Unless you recognize that laws *create disorder* ;-) The more laws and order are made prominent, the more

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread aronsmith
On Friday 31 October 2003 06:38 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:17:50 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The answer however, is not to reject everything out of hand and adopt the position that no law can be useful. Unless you recognize that laws *create disorder*

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread Franki
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 09:17 am, Tango Echo wrote: Yes, I do actually. Bryan, your problem is you are too rational =). In this upside down world we live in, and an even more more upside down US legal system (plz, no OT flames) anything is possible. I've heard of cases

[newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-30 Thread Ralph Slooten
Hiya group, I run my own private SMTP server for my mail, and just checking in the logs I realised that these spam-ridden ISP's are trying to use me as a relay. They fortunately aren't succeeding as I'm getting things like this: Oct 30 15:14:54 axljab postfix/smtpd[27285]: connect from

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-30 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:25:36 + Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what a surprise, KorNET, the biggest wankers of 'em all but still, I have many many more, and not only from KorNEt but also knows spammer-ridden ISP's like China Net. In my experience, china9988 gives up

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 7:14 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:25:36 + Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what a surprise, KorNET, the biggest wankers of 'em all but still, I have many many more, and not only from KorNEt but also knows spammer-ridden ISP's

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:24 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Does anyone know where I can find such information, to ease my troubles? ;-) I need to find out the full ip-ranges of certain ISP's. You can get ranges from whois if you really want them. However, you appear to have the opportunity