It is rumored that on or about 2002-03-24 3:47 PM -0500, Paul List Hess wrote as follows: >At 3:00 PM -0500 3/24/02, Neil Herber nospam wrote: >>Question 2: Is there any way to reject spam based on the number of >>addresses in the CC: header? I have some bone-head spammers sending >>stuff with 60 addresses in CC: instead of BCC:. Where has the pride >>in workmanship gone? ;-> > >Not as such, but you can create "spamtrap" addressess and pu them >out there for spammers to find. If a spammer cc's or bcc's a >message to one of those spamtraps, the whole message will be >rejected and none of the other 60 users will get it. >
Paul I already use spam traps (I am pretty sure I said that in the original post) but the problem is of the 60 addresses, only one of them actually lives on my server. Short of collecting all these other addresses and making *them* spam traps, I am not sure what can be done. Here is a real example. You can see that this is a spam robot just by the addresses: >CC: >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: I removed my own real address, but it too starts with nh! -- Neil Neil Herber, RGD Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ Eton Systems, 15 Pinepoint Drive, Nepean, ON, Canada K2H 6B1 Tel: (613) 829-4668 ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
