RE: [Full-Disclosure] About spamb strange characters

From: Schmehl, Paul L (pauls_at_utdallas.edu)
Date: 05/13/03

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    To: <vogt@hansenet.com>, <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:04:58 -0500

    I'll tell you how we "solved" one of the problems. We were getting
    almost daily form letter complaints from something called
    "myNetwatchman". Most of them were "RESEARCH PENDING" or complaints
    about KaZaA and other P2P apps which we can do nothing about. I emailed
    them three separate times to three different addresses (all cc'd on each
    message) asking them to please send us useful information *only* or we
    would route their mail to /dev/null.

    Guess where their mail goes now...

    The biggest scourge on the planet for security types right now is those
    damn home firewalls that send auto complaints with useless information.

    Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
    Adjunct Information Security Officer
    The University of Texas at Dallas
    AVIEN Founding Member
    http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/

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    From: vogt@hansenet.com [mailto:vogt@hansenet.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:35 AM
    To: nexus@patrol.i-way.co.uk; John.Airey@rnib.org.uk;
    full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
    Subject: AW: [Full-Disclosure] About spamb strange characters

    > Edjumakating all these clueless MTA sysadmins that provide
    > spammers with
    > thousands of open relays would be the only way to do it IMHO.
    > Mind you, that's also as likely... may as well repeatedly
    > bang your head against the ISP's abuse@ auto-ignorer ;-)

    You should see what finds its way into the abuse@ account. If the
    quality of abuse reports were better, more could be done about it. I
    have seen:
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