> [spammed from 216.34.4.251 and put 'em in my blacklist], any others I
should enter to prevent this mail again?
It's like fighting cancer. It's a chronic condition that can be
controlled, but never eradicated. After a while, the control is
practically as good as a cure. When I get spam, my steps are:
1) Query DNS on the ip.
2) If it really came through Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc, I configure my
mail client to filter it or "just delete it". The end. I've given up on
notifying these services about abuses.
3) Just for fun, I surf to port 80 on the ip. Sometimes a page will
come back letting me know it's a Chinese/Korean/Nigerian provider. I've
configured a version of Mozilla for this purpose by deleting personal
info from the preferences and turning off Java and scripting.
4) Find out who owns the ip block. One place to go is
"http://www.flumps.org/ip/c/";. If it's not a US, Japanese, or European
ISP, I tend to dump the whole block into the SIMS blacklist. Very
quickly, I ended up searching out Chinese, Korean, African, and S.
American block lists, and pasting them in. This approach is a bit
harsh, but it works for me.
5) Submit the ip to www.ordb.org to test for an open relay. If it tests
positive, you've helped quite a few other people, as well as yourself.
You've added relays.ordb.org to your RBL list, haven't you?
6) Every now and then, I'll send a very polite note to postmaster
suggesting they check for an open relay. Sometimes I use the Fish, if I
can get a simple message to translate from English and back clearly.
Carl
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