Bill Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 10:16 PM -0500 10/5/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] imposed >structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: > >>Obviously, it's a dictionary attack with spoofed IPs (is that >>possible?) or relayed off a bunch of random servers. > >More likely, pushed through a lot of different unsecured proxies. >Open SOCKS and similar proxies are the favorite tool of spammers >these days because they provide generally more reliable anonymity >with more direct feedback than SMTP relays.
I see. > >>How do we battle that? > > >It's hard. There is the opm.blitzed.org blacklist that can be used >to reject mail from many open proxies, but that won't stop them from >trying. you can certainly report the attacks to the relevant ISP's, >but you can expect slow to no response there since most ISP's have >abuse response in pure firefighting mode these days. Thanks, I'll check out opm.blitzed.org. -- Bill Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
