[CLUE-Talk] Spammers fight back?

Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. jnagyjr at joseph-a-nagy-jr.homelinux.org
Tue Jun 15 15:33:44 MDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:45:51PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote the following:
> Maybe I was naive to think that I could actually contact the abuse@ 
> address for a network block in Mexico.  I notified them of someone 
> sending a lot of spam to our servers.  Now it seems there is a lot of 
> spam going out using my address in the From: section.  I guess spammers 
> do more than just annoy us--they also ruin things for RFC-complaint 
> netizens.  Now I will think twice about reporting abuse.
> 
> Angelo

SpamAssassin is your friend. Sucks though that the abuse@ address only
resulted in MORE spam, this time being sent out in your name.

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