Kurt A. Butzin, DDS Molarnet Technologies, Inc
President 1936 Bay Street
kurt@molar.net Saginaw, MI 48602
http://www.molar.net (517) 249-4638
Authorized iPSwitch WebVar (http://www.molar.net/ipswitch/index.html)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Barrett <john@asacomp.com>
To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: relay spam
>Mitch Wagers wrote:
>>
>> Members,
>>
>> I just thought I would try and be informative...we got hit *hard* last
>> night with nearly 3000 emails that were relayed through our system. Now,
>> we are getting messages from the people that were recipients seriously
>> complaining about the SPAM originating from us! However, it didn't
>> originate from us and we now have a block put on *.mymail.net because
that
>> is one of the locations it originated from. I've also locked down all
relay
>> mail except from our local hosts/domains so hopefully nothing like this
>> will happen again. I encourage ALL of you that run mail servers to do
this!
>> Individuals/companies that do this make me incredibly angry, but what can
>> you do?
>>
>> The message pertained to "MAKE MONEY FAST" schemes, of course.
>> Owners were ronh@hotmail.com, whether that is a valid address I have no
>> idea, but he's blocked too.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mitch
>>
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>Good luck with this one Mitch, The ones we got used an incrementing
>address. We've tried but he always finds a way back in. He does not
>relay off of us but he sends junk to our users regularly. We get the
>bounce off of AOL and Hotmail both. It's not like I can block the whole
>domains...
>--
>John T. Barrett
>Sr. Engineer / Webmaster
>ASA Network Computing
>(614)476-9876
>john@asacomp.com
>webmaster@asacomp.com
>
>http://www.asacomp.com
>"Bringing the world a little bit closer, One Customer at a time."
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