[CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

Thu Oct 2 18:23:28 UTC 2008
Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com>

 

> > 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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