[NMLUG] now that the spam is under control...

[mpchlets at infotechmegacorp.com (michael)]

Yes, 
  Create a recipe that replies with 2 emails to the "spambot" and a X-Icreate 
header that states that you created the email.  Then when the spambot gets 
it, it will reply, but with your header info in there, you will be able to 
reply with two more messages, and then send the emails to /dev/null.  This 
will of course escalate exponentially, and businesses may soon realize that 
replying to spammers is dangerous and could cause their network to go down.  
Of course, you will probably take down your box and their firewall.

michael



Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:31:51 -0700 
From: Jody Harris <havoc@harrisdev.com> 



To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List <nmlug@nmlug.org> 
Subject: [NMLUG] now that the spam is under control... 
Reply-to: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List <nmlug@nmlug.org> 
 

What can we do about the spam-bot bounce backs? 

Once I cleared up the technical difficulties that made SpamAssassin stop 
working for about three weeks, the spam went away.  Now, it seems that 
many corporations have gotten on the spam wagon, and they're rejecting 
mail back to "sender."  That's "sender" as the e-mail envelope says, anyway. 

I have the great privilege of having a slew of publicly published e-mail 
addresses.  The worms/trojans/virii are using e-mail addresses pulled 
from the web cache to use as the 'from' address.  Now, my mailbox is 
filling up with these rejects.  I have brewed a couple of generic 
procmail recipes to handle the most generic rejects, but these new "spam 
firewalls" are proliferating pretty fast, and allow for customization. 

Any thoughts? 

jody