But can you make it stick, ah that's the trick?
So many spammers (and DOS creators too.) just burn free email account by
the hundreds in the process of spewing their garbage. Look at the churn for
any of the free Email systems. They kill accounts left and right 24/7 and
still the spammers come back. I read where one spammer alleged he opened
over 100 proxy Email accounts a day, only to have them killed off in a
matter of hours. Of course they had already spit out several thousand Spam
Email each.
The real cure would be to go after those who make it profitable.
Spammers aren't just doing this for the joy of spamming. Let's face it they
are in it for the fast buck. I doubt any of us are doing this for free
either.
How's this for an idea, could someone right a script, perhaps in
conjunction w/IMGate to autoforward Spam Email (perhaps just that from the
free services at first) to the sources webmaster? Most of the free services
are fairly good at killing Spam accounts once they are reported. That would
help as an early detection system to shorten the life span of a spammers
proxy account.
OOPS...!!!, fell of my soap box. Well I hope you all have a nice
weekend.
Kevin Childers
Mail Administrator
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The Carolina's Fastest Internet Service Provider
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dusty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SPAM from my own users?
> The whole contract is a little lengthy to post here. The e-mail
> specific portion defines spam.
>
> [snip]
> Harassment, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages, is
> prohibited.
> Customers may not send email to any person who does not wish to receive
it.
> If a recipient asks to stop receiving email, the customer must not send
that
> person any further email.
> Customers are explicitly prohibited from sending unsolicited bulk mail
> messages ("junk mail" or "spam"). This includes, but is not limited to,
> bulk-mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, and
> political tracts. Such material may only be sent to those who have
> explicitly requested it.
> Customers may not forward or otherwise propagate chain letters, whether or
> not the recipient wishes to receive such mailings.
> Malicious email, including but not limited to "mailbombing" (flooding a
user
> or site with very large or numerous pieces of email), is prohibited.
> Forging of header information is not permitted.
> NetEase accounts or services may not be used to collect replies to
messages
> sent from another Internet Service Provider, where those messages violate
> this Acceptable Use Policy or the Acceptable Use Policy of that other
> provider.
> These rules apply to other types of Internet-based distribution mediums as
> well, such as RLG's Ariel system (a system for sending FAX-like documents
> over the Internet). USENET postings have their own regulations; see below.
> [/snip]
>
> Then the basic lingo of the penalty.
>
> [snip]
> Network abuse defined in this service agreement will not be tolerated by
any
> individual and offenders may be subject to fines and penalties for damages
> incurred. These damages include, but are not limited to; Denial of Service
> attacks created by mass e-mail relay attempts to other providers or
repeated
> un-solicited e-mail attempts to our local servers; Network outages created
> by attempts to hack network security; Packet flooding created by attempts
to
> block or interfere with network traffic. Charges for labor to clean up and
> respond to complaints due to network abuse may be as much as $200 per
hour.
> Additionally, in accordance with Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47,
Chapter
> 18, charges up to $5,000 per day may be imposed to the sender of
> un-solicited e-mail as illustrated in the following excerpt from this law.
>
> "If the injury arises from the transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic
> mail, an injured electronic mail service provider may also recover
> attorneys' fees and costs, and may elect, in lieu of actual damages, to
> recover the greater of ten dollars ($10.00) for each and every unsolicited
> bulk electronic mail message transmitted in violation of this article, or
> five thousand dollars ($5,000) per day."
> [/snip]
>
> Dusty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Hitchcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 7:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SPAM from my own users?
>
>
> > Could I see your contract I need to do something like that?
> >
> > How do you define SPAM in your contract? Do you just define it as
> > unsolicitated E-Mail or is it e-mail that can not be responded to?
>
>
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