RE: About spamb strange characters

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>]

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/ 

-----Original Message-----
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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