I collect some spammer accountibng here; and I saw a lot of spam been sent from UUnet's, MCI's and Sprint's dialup addresses to some mail-relays. If someone want to get this collected spam messages, I can do it for him in near future. PS. Don't kill anyone, but investigate him and poisone him to the half-live state -:). It's the best idea I know... But I don't think it's the best place for the such discussions. On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Adam Rothschild wrote:
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:42:07 -0500 From: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Attack of the Killer Spam
NANOG folk:
Over the past few weeks, I have noticed an influx of SPAM(tm) transmitted by UUNet dynamic IP dial-up users (read: MSN, Earthlink, GTE, etc.) and relayed using Earthlink SMTP relays. Am I turning senile prematurely, or has anyone else noticed this influx?
Also, how easy would it be for Earthlink and other nationwide "ISP's" (or more accurately, UU/PSI resellers) to do the following? This would not stop SPAM(tm) dead in its tracks, but I figure it would make it easier to hold spammers accountable at least... unless, of course, they use throw-away accounts, in which case there is not much that can be done...
- institute anti-spam rules on their SMTP relays, i.e. only relay mail reporting to be from earthlink.net and the virtual domains they host
- only allow SMTP relaying from IP's assigned to *their customers* dynamically (cross-reference Radius logs?)
And what would you get? It's not problem for any spammer to bye 100 dialup accounts around USA, and use (legally) all this UUnet's, MCI's etc mail relays...
Constructive feedback would be greatly appreciated! Together, we CAN make a difference.
Regards, Adam