Matt Kettler wrote on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:16:43 -0500:
> So I don't think this really changes much about spam, aside from perhaps
> encouraging spammers to clean their lists.
Do they "clean" their lists? It seems to a certain point, yes. Although it
just seems they push all the stuff out and do
Matt Kettler wrote on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:04:36 -0500:
> It's almost certainly someone who uses milter-sender. milter-sender does this
> dummy check before accepting mail. It's taking the "verify MX record of
> envelope
> sender" one step further and verifying the whole address.
But the envelo
>...
>List Mail User wrote:
>> tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list
>> and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem
>> to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll
>> have to block some other IP or range), so the
Rick Macdougall wrote:
> you do not bounce after accepting
Hear, hear!
I wish AOL and Yahoo would figure this out.
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Matt Kettler wrote:
Realistically, most spam I get seems to be using addresses that are already in
the spammer's database of "valid" email addresses. While I see a lot of viruses
using dictionary based MAIL FROM addresses, I see very little spam doing this.
So I don't think this really changes m
Justin Mason wrote:
>
> Hey Matt --
>
> fwiw, I find them pretty inoffensive in and of themselves; however, from a
> game-theory point of view, their effects are lousy.
>
> This, and other methods that attempt to fight spam by validating an email
> address' validity, don't necessarily try to va
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Matt Kettler writes:
> List Mail User wrote:
> > tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list
> > and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem
> > to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably c
List Mail User wrote:
> tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list
> and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem
> to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll
> have to block some other IP or range), so they, while
ot;tuxorama.com" sound familiar to anyone?
tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list and is
one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem to always
come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll have to
block some othe
tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list
and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem
to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll
have to block some other IP or range), so they, while irritating are very
easy to
This could just be sheer coincidence, but like I said, we don't get a whole
lot of E-Mail here, so it'd be an odd coincidence.
Almost immediately after my first posting on this board, someone has started
"testing" our SMTP server, with an IP registered in Amsterdam, NL.
Here's our current log t
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