On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Andreas Mohr wrote: [...]
IMHO the main problem is that this kind of mail server is almost anonymous. Not as much as with relay mail, but my ISP takes care of that. If there was a regular Internet domain for the mail server, there would be *some* serious business information and as such some responsability.
Yep. Same SPAM mail, same reasoning (tried traceroute, which ended in the rain forest). abuse@verio.net is probably the best bet, but still... This is one of the nastiest forms of SPAM. No real usable info at all.
Why is it more anonymous than spam that is being relayed? The From address of relayed spam is forged anyway. At least here you get the IP address of the spammer (if he did not forge it). From this 'whois 192.76.183.3' gives you who's behind that IP address, the name of the contact, ...
It seems to come from a University, btw. If it were to come from an ISP then an email to that ISP would work just fine. They know exactly who uses what IP address at any time for obvious accounting (some still charge per hour) and accountability reasons. So it should be just as easy for them to terminate that account.
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BTW, I got two or three open relays closed last week. (not that this helps too much, though...)
Hurray!
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape around here somewhere...