On 05/19/04, Hank Nussbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone know more?
Things looked better today, but past experience shows that they
may get awful again in a few days. While the problem may appear
to be more on our (Hotmail's) end than Yahoo's, the volume of
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/messages/messages-19.html
Attention Hotmail and MSN users
Hotmail and MSN mail users are currently experiencing delays of up to 1 day
in receiving Groups messages. If delays exceed this, we may begin to not
deliver older messages.
We are sorry that you are ex
Folks, If I may offer a humble opinion here before this gets out of hand.
I see many (me included) trying to side step the issue that SMTP is a broken
and insecure protocol for that of electronic messages(ing). I see folks
blacklisting,
RBLing, and other methods in an attempt to fix the issue, wh
>>> The same document that fully ignores that port number
>>> randomness will severely limit the risk of susceptibility
>>> to such an attack?
>>
>> How many zombies would it take to search the port number
>> space exhaustively?
>
> Irrelevant.
>
> The limiting factor here is how many packets c
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 17:47, Randy Bush wrote:
> gosh! maybe someone should set up a mailing list to discuss
> spam, anti-spam, ...?
>
> you mean they have? well, then maybe a bunch of us network
> operators (as opposed to spam weenies) should go over there
> and talk about sdh, router configs
gosh! maybe someone should set up a mailing list to discuss
spam, anti-spam, ...?
you mean they have? well, then maybe a bunch of us network
operators (as opposed to spam weenies) should go over there
and talk about sdh, router configs, circuit provisioning,
etc.
get a clue, spam weenies!
On 5/19/2004 7:06 PM, James Couzens wrote:
> I just did this on 5 spam in my mail box, I got:
[domains ommitted--tripped my filters]
my last 10 survivors are at http://www.ehsco.com/misc/last-10-spams.eml
the relevant data for them in order of occurrance is below.
eight are CN, one is KR, one
Title: RE: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
Eric,
> There's one rule that will wipe out ~90% of spam, but nobody seems to have
> written it yet.
>
> if URL IP addr is in China then score=100
>
> support for a generic lookup list of cidr blocks would get another 9%
I agree that geographic
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James Couzens wrote:
| On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:24, Eric A. Hall wrote:
|
|>extract hostname from url, dig on hostname, whois on addr, and nine times
|>out of ten the host is in a CN netblock. that's from the spam that gets
|>into my mailbox.
|
|
| Yes
On 5/19/2004 6:38 PM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> Altho this is probably not true if you're one of the billion or so
> people who live in or around China or are of Chinese origin..
just check for charset=US-ASCII first. come to think of it, ASCII would
probably give half the necessary weight alo
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:24, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> extract hostname from url, dig on hostname, whois on addr, and nine times
> out of ten the host is in a CN netblock. that's from the spam that gets
> into my mailbox.
Yes I understand that is what you meant. I just did this on 5 spam in
my mail b
perhaps this all belongs on alt.jingo.weenies? can we focus on
network operations not network exclusionism? this is worse than
spam.
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Richard Cox wrote:
> > While this is verging off our remit here, I would clarify the point
> > originally made, which is that if a URL - that is, a URL cited in the
> > body of a message - points to an IP physically located in Ch
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Richard Cox wrote:
> While this is verging off our remit here, I would clarify the point
> originally made, which is that if a URL - that is, a URL cited in the
> body of a message - points to an IP physically located in China, then
> that signals a high probability of the me
Not Ip's but domain names etc I block. You can perhaps generate some from
this?
http://www.unixgirl.com/blockeddomains.html
Nicole
On 19-May-04 the GW commando coersion squad reported Bob Martin said :
>
> Does anyone know of a list of dynamic IP's by ISP?
> I'm looking for something a
On 5/19/2004 6:19 PM, James Couzens wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:28, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> Going through the spam that I've got access to (and it is a substantial
> amount allbeit not in the millions of spam per day) I can't seem to
> associate the spam with chinese urls, and certainly not
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:28, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> not connection address, not domain 'owner', but URL->Hostname->IP_ADDR
>
> What's most interesting about the half-dozen accusations of xenophobia
> I've received (off-list and on) is that they've almost all come from
> foreigners. I promise not t
Now if I read that page, it's no longer available for public access, if
you purchase it, it may be of some use for you.. other than that, I do not
know.
*-1 for jumping an idea without researching*
Thanks,
Adam
Adam 'Starblazer' Romberg
> Does anyone know of a list of dynamic IP's by ISP?
By ISP, no, but this may be of interest,
http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul/
Thanks,
Adam
Adam 'Starblazer' Romberg Appleton: 920-738-9032
System Administrator Valley Fair: 920-968-77
Does anyone know of a list of dynamic IP's by ISP?
I'm looking for something akin to this list from AOL
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/info/servers.html
TIA
Bob Martin
If you plan to attend Sunday's hands-on tutorial for using the IPsec
server at NANOG, you may want to have a look at the slides in
advance. You can find them at: http://www.packet-pushers.net/NANOG/ipsec/
Unix users, in particular, may need to prepare their systems by
building a new kernel and/
On 19 May 2004 15:12:29 -0700 James Couzens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> if URL IP addr is in China then score=100
| I beg to differ Eric A. Hall.
...
|
| So contrary to what you said, perhaps I should just Null Route all
| email originating from the USA? ;)
While this is verging off our remi
On 5/19/2004 5:12 PM, James Couzens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:49, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>
>> There's one rule that will wipe out ~90% of spam, but nobody seems to
>> have written it yet.
>>
>> if URL IP addr is in China then score=100
^^^
not connection address
On Wed, 19 May 2004, James Couzens wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:49, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> > There's one rule that will wipe out ~90% of spam, but nobody seems to have
> > written it yet.
> > if URL IP addr is in China then score=100
> I beg to differ Eric A. Hall.
No Eric is quite correc
on Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:12:29PM -0700, James Couzens wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:49, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>
> > There's one rule that will wipe out ~90% of spam, but nobody seems to have
> > written it yet.
> >
> > if URL IP addr is in China then score=100
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:49, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> There's one rule that will wipe out ~90% of spam, but nobody seems to have
> written it yet.
>
> if URL IP addr is in China then score=100
I beg to differ Eric A. Hall.
According to statistics gathered by the Spamhaus Project
(http://www.sp
Todd Vierling wrote:
A colleague asked me offlist about how to make a Sendmail secondary MX
properly return 550 for invalid recipient addresses.
[snip]
For those with an LDAP directory containing mailbox information, I'd
recommend using sendmail's built-in LDAP capabilities. I've found it
a good wa
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Quoting Steven Champeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> It's not really my business why a hotmail.com MX accepted mail it
> couldn't deliver. I could care less /why/. It's up to hotmail to fix
> their systems - I don't care how they perform that background check on
> quota.
Exactly.
>
> It's my busi
Hello Folk,
I was
wondering if in-fact any of our routes are being suppressed either via our ASN
30174 or any of our ip space 66.164.0.0/16 or 66.79.96.0/20. Given and
Granted that we have had rotten history of sorts. However, we really have
cleaned up our networks and rid oursel
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