[PLUG] Trying to ID a spammer...

[Greg Long]

Some say therein lies the bigger issue - the cost of spam.  Although
each spam mail itself is small volume, en masse it accounts for a
sizeable chunk of bandwidth (which costs money). The time spent by
admins such as Sean costs money.  Notwithstanding, we all have family
and friends who are gullible enough to fall for spam-scam and lose money
- whether their trying to lose weight around their thighs or increase
the weight of their genetalia, etc.

My guess is that in the end we'll find that as strong legal penalties as
can feasibly be enacted for spammers and virus authors alike will help,
what else will it take that is constitutionally alowable?

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Sean Whitney
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:24 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Trying to ID a spammer...


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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