[thelist] reporting spammers

[Peter Kaulback]

In the wee hour of 11:54 AM 4/20/01 -0700, Mehmet Efe bequeathed such tales 
as these:
>Hi,
>
>Are there tools to identify and stop them in the first place?
>
>Say, you create a filter that will catch the spammer upon connection for
>delivery and simply reject the email (without bouncing) and drops the action
>into a log file.
>
>(Sendmail, Redhat 6.1)
>
>Thanks.
>
><mehmet />
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Dyer [mailto:ben_dyer at imaginuity.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:44 AM
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: Re: [thelist] reporting spammers
>
>
>I usually report them to spamcop.net.  It hasn't really been stopping the
>spammers (they're really hard to catch anyway), but it makes me feel better.
>
>--Ben
>
>At 01:32 PM 4/20/2001, you wrote:
> >where is the best place to report spammers to a
> >mailing list i maintain?  there seem to be a lot of
> >sites out there.  don't know where to start.
>
>-

I have a tool I use to create those bounced emails and it's been effective 
most of the time.
http://www.er.uqam.ca/merlin/fg591543/bsm/
Peter Kaulback


I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

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