[DMCForum] Re: Is somebody screwing around?

["ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ISPs should simply firewall off port 25. Period, end of story. Anyone
who needs to run their own mail server can either get an exception by
calling their ISP. Better yet, the customer can use the ISP's own SMTP
server to forward their mail. Then the ISP has control over how much
mail is going out, and can automatically pop up a big red flag if one
IP sends more than x messages per minute. Or auto-disable SMTP
forwarding if an IP exceeds the thresholds and send them an email,
forcing them to call customer service to re-enable SMTP.

This would virtually END spam.

-Ryan

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mike Walsh" <yahoo@xxxx> wrote:
> Viruses are the new way to spam. Programs, sometimes called spyware, 
> infect someone's machine and use that machine to send out thousands 
> of spam email using a built in email client. I am pretty sure the 
> spammer can send out the message, a list of "victims" and the return 
> address to these infected machines.
> 
> One email fileter (of 3) I have in place catches about 2500 of these 
> emails every day (YES, EVERY DAY!) I also get about 100 returned 
> emails each day with one of my email addresses as the sender.
> 
> In the past couple of months I have noticed that viruses are being 
> spread the same way, using the spammers list of millions of email 
> address.
> 
> You can blame the spammers, but I place the blame on these idiots who 
> have infected machines beaconing out this garbage. There is no excuse 
> for not running antivirus and anti-spyware software. How hard is it 
> for an ISP to start asking questions if one IP address is sending out 
> thousands of emails an hour?
> 
> - Mike
> 
> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxx> wrote:
> > > A few weeks ago a major spammer faked my e-mail as sender,
> > > and my mail box was filled with hundreds of bounced spams.
> > 
> > This has happened to me in the past - not major spammers, but 
> viruses
> > randomly spoofing my return address. 
> > 
> > > collect e-mail addresses from Yahoo Groups and counterfeit
> > > the sender's address to spoof others on the list to read the
> > > spam to figure out what is going on.  If they spam an
> > > unsubscribe address with your e-mail address appearing as
> > > the sender then Yahoo sends you an unsubscribe confirmation.
> > 
> > I suppose that makes sense. Good to hear; I assumed somebody was
> > trying to get rid of me. ;)
> > 
> > -Ryan

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