Re: Observation on secondary MX

2005-05-03 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Justin Mason wrote: It might be worthwhile maintaining some kind of spammer tactics knowledge base, on the wiki maybe? There's http://www.jgc.org/tsc/ but it's more focussed on textual obfuscation than low-level tactics. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Observation on secondary MX

2005-05-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Finch writes: On Mon, 2 May 2005, Justin Mason wrote: It might be worthwhile maintaining some kind of spammer tactics knowledge base, on the wiki maybe? There's http://www.jgc.org/tsc/ but it's more focussed on textual obfuscation

Observation on secondary MX

2005-05-02 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
About a month ago, there was a discussion on the list about how spammers specifically target secondary MX records. After reading I verified that indeed 99% of the mail that flowed through my store-and-forward secondary mail server was spam. So, I removed the second MX record from my DNS

Re: Observation on secondary MX

2005-05-02 Thread Niek
On 5/2/2005 1:48 PM +0200, Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: spam going to that server! I wonder if the spammers have cached the old MX entry Jup. Niek

Re: Observation on secondary MX

2005-05-02 Thread List Mail User
... About a month ago, there was a discussion on the list about how spammers specifically target secondary MX records. After reading I verified that indeed 99% of the mail that flowed through my store-and-forward secondary mail server was spam. So, I removed the second MX record from my

Re: Observation on secondary MX

2005-05-02 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niek writes: On 5/2/2005 1:48 PM +0200, Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: spam going to that server! I wonder if the spammers have cached the old MX entry Jup. BTW I've seen a few discussions recently where people rediscover (sorry Kevin) these