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

Posted by timothy on from the for-all-the-good-it'll-do-ya dept.

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.

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  1. What sort of a question is this? by ma++i+ude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As is, nobody cares about your list. Use an adaptive blacklist and join Project Honey Pot.

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    You can't shut us down! The Internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas!
  2. Publish your own, or join in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are hundreds of blacklists out there: https://mxtoolbox.com/problem/blacklist/

  3. Someones new to the internet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A 1 person maintained blacklist!! Sign me up!