[PLUG] Trying to ID a spammer...

Sean Whitney sean_whitney at bigfoot.com
Thu Jun 6 03:23:30 UTC 2002


Well from an ISP's side I know we take spammer's very seriously.  I get about 
3-5 Abuse messages filtered down to me from Corporate every day.  Spam, SEC 
subenas, DCMA, RIAA, MPAA.  I get them all, my personal feeling about some of 
this is mixed but spam is tracked down with a vengance.


Sean

On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:46, you hammered at the keyboard:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Mathews" <smathews at pcez.com>
> To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Trying to ID a spammer...
>
> > I wonder how often spammers send their stuff to skilled crackers, and
> > then pay the price. Surely even crackers get unwanted email from time to
> > time.
>
> To
>
> > crack into a spammer's box, wouldn't you have to, along the way, crack
>
> into
>
> > at least one ISP as well, to find files and logs and such leading back to
>
> the
>
> > spammer?  That would be impossibly difficult I would think.
>
> Not when the spammer is running sendmail 8.11.6....
>
>
>
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