Kim, I don't usually bother reporting blowback from big ISPs like AOL. They are big enough and have enough resources so that they should already know better. They just choose to be stupid, for whatever reason. I mostly report blowback from corporate servers, schools and small, private companies whose admins will actually see a copy of the SpamCop report, and might actually take the time to fix the problem.
I've found that most blowback is generated by servers that either use some sort of "gateway" scanner or have been sitting in place for a long time without anyone bothering to update their configuration in several years. You will see a lot of these servers wind-up on Spamhaus. If their volume gets to be big enough to be a serious threat to the internet community, you will see them listed at http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/latest.lasso . William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FastWave > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Virus Sober > > > >Such bogus reports from admins are referred to in mail admin > circles as > >"blowback". I report all antivirus blowback to SpamCop as > spam (which > >it is). > > > 'blowback'...didn't know that term. Thanks for explaining the > jargon! And, we agree that spam should not be 'bounced'. > > Just curious... > > We get a lot of 'blowback' in our administration accounts > (hostmaster, postmaster, spam, etc.) due to dictionary > attacks made on big ISPs like Yahoo, HotMail, and AOL. Do you > report them to SpamCop? We just delete the 'blowback' > messages, and chalk it up to naive administrators. > > Kim W. Premuda > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
