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List:       freebsd-isp
Subject:    Re: Spam
From:       James Housley <jim () thehousleys ! net>
Date:       2000-03-31 20:04:54
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Robert Hough wrote:
> 
>         I'm trying to figure out how to stop some spam from hitting my site, and
> have yet to figure it out. From the looks of things, it's like the spam
> generator being used is basically hitting a mass bulk of my users in an
> alphabetic approach. It even hits names in our /etc/aliases file. Is there
> some way these people are doing this, and is there a way to stop it? Here's
> a look at what my mail log showed me...
> 
> Mar 31 14:34:09 zoe2 sendmail[18256]: OAA18115:
> to=<user1@iserve.net>,<user2@iserve.net>,<user3@iserve.net>,
> delay=00:00:47, xdelay=00:00:13, mailer=local, relay=local, stat=Sent
> 
> This of course has been edited, but the user[x] would be the actual
> username, and these were all alphabetic in order, and each entry contained
> about 25+ addresses. It doesn't hit all of my users, and it shows itself to
> be coming from the mail-daemon....
> 
> Any help would be appreciated in this matter, as this is getting really
> annoying, and I'm not sure what the deal is. We are running sendmail 8.9.3
> currently, and yes, and upgrade is on my todo list.
> 
Sounds like an inside job, but you might want to look at:
http://maps.vix.com/ specificall RBL and RSS.

Jim
-- 
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