On October 16, 2003 at 22:17, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > 5) I've been reading up on the latest anti-spam weaponry. > Crazy stuff. In particular, I see that one people do > is use to generate poison email addresses on the fly - which > encode the IP of the harvesting spambot. Clever. > > These emails are "valid" in that they lead to a teergrub - an MTA > that recognizes these addresses and tries to slow down the > spammers MTA as much as possible. But it also seems that this > would be a decent way to create a spambot black hole list based on > IP. And because HTTP isn't usually relayed like SMTP is, this > might actually work. Is anyone already doing this? Any experts > want to comment?
The problem is the assumption that the IP address is legally controled by the spammer. There have been incidents where spammers are infecting regular people's computer systems (generally through some flaw with Windows) inorder to send out spam. I think some verification of the IP is needed to see if the owner of the address has been a victim or is an open relay that the owner refuses to close. --ewh _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
