On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:40:50AM -0800, Joe St Sauver wrote:
In addition to thousands of open relays, which are bad enough in their own right, there are also thousands of open proxy servers which a growing number of spammers have been using to launch spam runs lately. I suspect that's what you're seeing.
I agree--that's a strong possibility. This week, I released a tool to test open proxies. <http://www.unicom.com/sw/pxytest>
[I will also say that it would really be great if mail-abuse.org would add an open proxy listing project to complement their RSS, DUL, and other initiatives.]
I believe RBL will list open proxies. Another good resource is the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor (BOPM) <http://www.blitzed.org/bopm/>. -- Chip Rosenthal * chip@unicom.com * http://www.unicom.com/ Lawsuit Update: I Win, Domain Hijackers Lose * http://save.unicom.com/