Ask Slashdot: Should I Publish My Collection of Email Spamming IP Addresses?

An anonymous reader writes: I have, for a while now, been collecting IP addresses from which email spam has been sent to, or attempted to be relayed through, my email server. I was wondering if I should publish them, so that others can adopt whatever steps are necessary to protect their email servers from that vermin. However, I am facing ethical issues here. What if the addresses are simply spoofed, and therefore branding them as spamming addresses might cause harm to innocent parties? What if, after having been co-opted by spammers, they are now used legitimately? I wonder if there's a market for all the thousands of webmail addresses that send Slashdot nothing but spam.

Comments

Re:Go talk to Spamhaus

[Stan92057]

Ya know ive been reporting spam to the FTC for years and nothing and i mean nothing happens. I don't see any spammers getting arrested,fined by the FTC. I also send an email asking a congressman just what the FTC is doing with all the reported spam and all he did was send me a personal info form to sign and release. which i laughed at since ya have to give the very same info when ya send an email to them.