[CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam
Bob Hoffman
bob at bobhoffman.com
Thu Oct 2 18:23:28 UTC 2008
> > This might be slightly off-topic but as the source of spam
> is probably
> > a spammer getting emails from this list, I reported him and his
> > service provider should cut off his/her ugly head. I got an
>
> except, 99% of spam has forged FROM addresses, often an
> innocent address randomly picked from the same lists being
> used to send the spam TOO.
>
> 95% of the spam is sent from hacked/infected servers acting
> as relays, so complaining to the owner of the IP space the
> spam originated in doesn't actually catch the real spammers
> either, although it may help fix the hacked box, there's
> bazillions more.
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