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Jim Thompson
- Jan 1, 1970
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Will it give anyone heartburn if I petition Cox.net to block all
usenet posts from skynet.be ??
...Jim Thompson
usenet posts from skynet.be ??
...Jim Thompson
usenet posts from skynet.be ??
I would hope that you have a particularly good reason. Do you get a
particularly large amount of abuse from these Belgians? Personally I've
seen the most trouble from AOL users and cable modem blocks.
Jim Thompson said:I'm seeing a grotesque amount of porn ads both here in the usenet
groups *and* via E-mail.
Spamnix is now batting 100% since Barry added Bayesian testing, but it
annoys me that it's eating bandwidth.
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
Will it give anyone heartburn if I petition Cox.net to block all
usenet posts from skynet.be ??
In sci.electronics.design Jim Thompson said:I'm seeing a grotesque amount of porn ads both here in the usenet
groups *and* via E-mail.
You'll give Cox Communications heartburn, because it
lands them in a legal minefield. Total blocking of email
from another ISP opens them up to being sued by a Cox
customer who "did not receive an email that would have been
worth millions had he received it".
Jem said:Not email though, I think he means USENET posts. I still don't like the
idea, since skynet.be is hardly one of the worst offending domains on the
internet.
The posts that (probably) set this off are actually being posted from an
AOL IP address - the spammer in question (one of the usual big spammers)
is apparently using throwaway AOL trial accounts and hacking skynet
through those.
Lets block nntp-posting-host == AOL shall we?
Jim Thompson said:Will it give anyone heartburn if I petition Cox.net to block all
usenet posts from skynet.be ??
You'll give Cox Communications heartburn, because it
lands them in a legal minefield. Total blocking of email
Chris Hodges said:Lets block nntp-posting-host == AOL shall we?
Jim said:I'm all for toasting AOL ;-)
How did you conclude it originated at AOL?
...Jim Thompson
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Michael said:He is posting from blueyonder.co.uk, so it has to be an American at
fault. I guess he believes that no one in Europe is smart enough to
hack a server to send spam.
And this would affect nntp posting from Skynet exactly how?
Billy Y..
No but you'd be much better off with a news service that removes
all the spam for you. That's fairly routine stuff these days.
Chris Hodges said:The nntp-posting-host header (i.e. the actual IP address of the machine
used to post the message) points to AOL, not skynet.
You do realise I wasn't serious don't you - I know I forgot the <g>.
Right there should be a huge trigger to help stop the spam source. If the source header doesn't match the written headerThey add more filtering algorithms so the software gets smart enough to
figure out what is spam all the time. Then they add more software so it can
trace forged headers and locate the sources.