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Name and Shame Spam Senders With OpenBSD

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-a-cool-infomercial dept.

Peter N. M. Hansteen writes "Once you've identified spam senders, OpenBSD provides all the tools you need to take one step further: exporting their addresses and publishing the evidence. You can even trap them yourself using known bad addresses. It's easy, fun and good netizenship."

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  1. Really? by Darkness404 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Really is spam that big of a problem anymore? Ever since I've switched to Gmail all my spam has been blocked by it or blocked by a simple mail filter. Now then again, I don't give my real e-mail address to everyone and their brother, but individual spam blockers have come a long, long ways.

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  2. that I think he's avoiding by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Informative

    I could be misreading, but I think he's using the IP of the server that actually connects to his server and attempts to deliver mail, not the IP reported in the mail headers.

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