Subject: Re: challenge-response
Newsgroups: gmane.mail.procmail
Date: 2005-07-27 15:56:58 GMT (2 years, 41 weeks, 1 day, 20 hours and 54 minutes ago)
Hello Paul, Am 2005-07-27 10:26:38, schrieb Paul Bijnens: > As former victim of such a harvested email address being used > as sender for spam, I can only strongly affirm that the damage > is very real. I received about 2000-3000 "replies" on the first days > going from "user unknown" (usually from MS Exchange mailers) to real > insults directed to me personally (which must have been taken a > considerable amount of time of the writers too). > Even weeks after the event, I still received back scatter emails. I am victim since around 2 years. At least one time per week I get such DOS on my <linux4michelle> and then I get between 500 and 34.000 Messages a day. Currently I get around 14.000 per day and 95% of them on <linux4michelle>. Because I am Debian-Consultant and working seriously, I do not change my E-Mail each week, but SPAM is the price. Never I have used challenge responses... If I get such b......t I send it to /dev/null thanks procmail. > What I perceived as most damaging is that between all those "bounces" > (they do not all have the "Re:..." subject line either), there are > still some real normal messages for me, which I did not want to miss. Yeah, I have the same problem... > On the other hand, my procmailrc skills were making great progress.I have a blacklist of Server/E-Mails sending permanent SPAM or AAV-Messages or Challange Reponses: <http://michelle.konzack.home.tamay-dogan.homelinux.net/linux/tdmailblacklist/LIST_blacklist> Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)