On Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 7:01:45 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > I received another one of those HTML messages about stock quotes [...]
> The previous ones were stopped due to the IP being listed in spamcop, > I would like to report the IP this one came from BUT , I would like to make > sure its not some innocent person, that was used as a relay vicitm At this point of Internet history there should be very few open relays, if that's what you're referring to. Any mail server that would allow mail to be relayed through it would tend to get so flooded with spam as to be unusable. Also most MTAs like sendmail, postfix, etc., for a long time now have shipped with default configurations that *don't* allow open relaying. So open relays aren't common. These days most spams are probably sent by virus/trojan/malware- infected PCs without the owners' knowledge. Given that most people who run proper mail servers probably keep them reasonably secure and most spam is sent through infected machines, you generally won't be harming many legitimate senders by blacklisting the sender IPs of the very common spam types. Most of those are simply infected or compromised machines. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/
