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Re: Almost off topic




On 02-Feb-98 Asher Frenkel wrote:
> I strongly recommend anyone that is running a mail server to add rules to
> support Paul Vixie's RBL project (Realtime Blackhole List).
> from http://maps.vix.com/rbl:
> "Welcome to the home page of the MAPS (the Mail Abuse Protection System)
> RBL (our Realtime Blackhole List). The MAPS RBL is a system for creating
> intentional network outages for the purpose of limiting the transport of
> known-to-be-unwanted mass e-mail. The MAPS RBL is a subscription system, 
> such that no one is ever denied connectivity to a non-RBL-subscriber." 

This is definitely the way to go. Mr. Vixie (BIND maintainer among other things)
has set up a special domain for reverse lookups (by address).

It IS a good idea to block complete domains, as the spam patterns are
usually from big domains housing companies selling services of the
"we will distribute your ads to thousands of sites and mailing list".

It is NOT a good idea to bounce the message, as the source address
is usually faked (pointing to another victim).

Police will be useless in the near future until international laws will
be set although its a good idea to raise the subject of law, to block
at least the Israeli part of the spam (small, but still, that Aluminum
factory announcement, few weeks ago, to the list, really annoyed me).

The key is to make this advertisement channel uneconomic by making the
companies USING it (the spammer costumers) look bad in public.

        Oron


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