There are also some problem IPs available from http://www.spamcop.net which
I use to report spammers.
Tom
On Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 17:22, Joshua Putnam
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] bizarre list probelms" saying:
> Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > List owners have to watch who they approve when a list becomes a target.
>
>
> Individual lists are rarely specifically targetted.
> Instead, web-crawling spambots send their junk mail to any
> address they find while browsing public web pages and usenet
> postings. I used to have one address that only appeared on
> a web page, but never was used for any outgoing email,
> registrations, usenet, etc., and that address got a steady
> stream of junk mail from that one web appearance.
>
> Besides canning known spammers, list admins can take steps
> such as setting a maximum number of recipients for a
> message, and disallowing implicit addressing of the list
> (the list has to be in the To: or Cc: headers, which
> eliminates much commercial spam).
>
> --
> josh@xxxxxxxxx is Joshua Putnam
> http://www.phred.org/~josh/
> Braze your own bicycle frames. See
> http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html
>
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