Mark Crean wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote: [snip]
He is not trusting the from: address as he knows addresses most certainly are fake. As I said I shall have to ask again, it was described in detail, but I paid little attention as I was not interested enough to take details and then work through it. There are ways to get back to a spammer's box, articles have been written with full details of all the convoluted links, but theyhave been traced back. It's not impossible for someone who knows what he is doing. Regards Sid.
Alas, well-crafted spam is untraceable back to the originator these days. Unless the spammer is acting unprofessionally, the best you'll get is an open relay, zombie or bent isp, in my experience anyway.
But then there is no need at all to trace the stuff back. The world's most prolific spammers are very public about it and don't care who knows. Just take a look through the top couple of hundred on the lists at Spamhaus, where you'll also see that the problem is mostly sourced from America. These are your targets. Of course, you'll have to be prepared to take on their friends and associates - corrupt politicians, mafiosi, etc. Nicest guys you could meet, I'm sure.
The people who should really be spammed are the politicians who've known all about these guys and the extremely unpleasant realities behind them for a very long time now.
In the meantime, I'm sticking to spamassassin.
:)
Fish
I wonder what ever happened to "spamhole", I supposed it never caught on, the idea was to use that piece of software to fake an open relay and have all the spam dumped to /dev/null. The suggestion was that with widespread use, it could blunt the spammers. The latest was Dec. 2003 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/spamhole/spamhole-0.5.tar.gz?download, I must see what that offers. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====