RE: Harmful spammers

2001-10-15 Thread Simon Marlow
There are a couple things to do that can at least cut down on spam. 1) Make sure that your mail gateway, or (in this case) the mailing list host is not an open relay site. It isn't. 2) Every time you get spam, locate all the hosts it came through in the header. Or alternatively

Re: Harmful spammers

2001-10-15 Thread Andre W B Furtado
Or alternatively just report it using Spamcop (http://spamcop.net) or some other reporting tool. Life is just too short to do this by hand every time you get spam. CAUCE (The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) seems to me a nice alternative. Check www.cauce.org. On the Haskell

Re: Harmful spammers

2001-10-10 Thread jefu
There are a couple things to do that can at least cut down on spam. 1) Make sure that your mail gateway, or (in this case) the mailing list host is not an open relay site. Check http://www.mail-abuse.net/ and especially http://www.mail-abuse.net/rss/ for more information.

Re: Harmful spammers

2001-10-10 Thread Ketil Malde
jefu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) Every time you get spam, locate all the hosts it came through in the header. Check both hostnames and ip addresses as one of the common spammer techniques is to give a different hostname than the ip address maps to. Note that spammers add dummy