Had one of these come in last Saturday (Jan 31st). It was overly wordy and didn't get to the point of which IP address had the problem (long since taken care of, was a spam relay dropped by SoBig.f), after which it went on for another 4 paragraphs basically saying open relays are "bad mmmmkay and we've got more info on our shiny new web site". And after all that it list every participating orginazation in every country.
Basically what they're doing is emailing, some would say spamming, all the abuse/admin addresses they can find for any IP address that pops up in any RBL that's out there. On Wednesday 04 February 2004 07:22 am, Kang , Joseph S. wrote: > Of all the... I read this this morning on The Register > (http://www.theregister.co.uk): > > US aims to plug global spam holes > By electricnews.net > Posted: 03/02/2004 at 11:13 GMT > Stay up to date wherever you are, with The Register Mobile > > The US Federal Trade Commission has announced an international initiative > to fight spam, which will focus on closing off the unsecured servers used > by spammers. > > The FTC is to work with 36 different agencies in 26 countries on its new > programme, entitled Operation Secure Your Server. The initiative is > designed to coordinate an international effort to reduce the flow of > unsolicited commercial email by urging organisations to close open relays > and open proxies, which are often used by spammers to send unsolicited > email. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35297.html > > The FTC site is here: > > http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/secureyourserver/index.htm > > What do others think about this? > > -Joe K.
