Spam - managing the menace

Why not rather track down these spammers and shove them into jail?
 
I would agree, follow the money trail. I remember a local paper telling a story about an Australian self made millionaire who won a gold medal in the olympics. What they ommitted was that the twit was a SPAM king.
 
Is there any reason why ISP's don't use authentication on SMTP servers? That would make tracking the spoofers down a whole lot easier.
 
BobJones said:
Is there any reason why ISP's don't use authentication on SMTP servers? That would make tracking the spoofers down a whole lot easier.
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I don't think so. Anyone can set up their own SMTP server on their PC. In fact, thats what most spammers do, they install a small SMTP server on your pc and blast the world from it.
 
Enough

Had a huge spam problem including spammers spoofing my server address to sent spam from my domain as well. Was receiving at least 30 -40 a day!. Posted in other threads about this as well and some suggested using Gmail because of their excellent spam filters, now that its open to all. I have forwarded all my mail via my server to Gmail and have configured Outlook to access Gmail as a pop account. Been close on a week now and NOT ONE SPAM MAIL!!!!!:D :D :D :D
 
Tns said:
Why not rather track down these spammers and shove them into jail?
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There will always be another guy looking to get rich quick. The real problem is the idiots who buy stuff from the spammers and who fall for the scams. If we could get rid of them there would be no spam problem.
 
Abe said:
I don't think so. Anyone can set up their own SMTP server on their PC. In fact, thats what most spammers do, they install a small SMTP server on your pc and blast the world from it.
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True, but many just use the SMTP servers already around. At least authenitication will make it harder for spammers. And you can begin to isolate and deal with the zombies. Also your security system has a good chance of detecting when new services are started like new SMTP server services.
 
Abe said:
I don't think so. Anyone can set up their own SMTP server on their PC. In fact, thats what most spammers do, they install a small SMTP server on your pc and blast the world from it.
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Fortunately that sort of spam is easy to combat with SPF Records and greylisting. If ISPs would just implement it . . . .
 
I've got a solution of sorts, I use individual EMail address's for each company I do business with in addition to a couple that I use purely for unknown(untrusted) sites.

unsuprisingly, FNB and digital planet sold my details onward, FNB to RCS credit and woolworths, woolworths in turn to nedbank and then to their AMEX division, digital planet sold my details to ABSA.

Nice, and the banks claim to protect our data, ja sure.

D
 
damian24 said:
I've got a solution of sorts, I use individual EMail address's for each company I do business with in addition to a couple that I use purely for unknown(untrusted) sites.

unsuprisingly, FNB and digital planet sold my details onward, FNB to RCS credit and woolworths, woolworths in turn to nedbank and then to their AMEX division, digital planet sold my details to ABSA.

Nice, and the banks claim to protect our data, ja sure.

D
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Tried the individual addresses as well. Somehow still got each one filled with spam.:( But, as I said above, its now been just over a week and I am SPAM FREE:D Hello, my name is Gary and its been a week since my last spam.......;)
 
Currently my filters says that 82% of all mail gets flagged as spam
It's getting better than it used to be
 
Outlook 2003 does a little better on spam filtering though. Interesting that if you send an email with a 'Hi' subject, outlook 2003 would not send't as it regard't as possible spam.
 
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