Reporting spammers

[Red Squirrel]

I'm pretty well setup now in terms of spam filtering, and if I can get email fowarding to work, I may even offer a private spam filtering service through my local server. The server acts as a client since it checks for mail, then it would simply foward it, so no need to to make the server be online, as long as it has a net connection.

So with all this spam coming through and being properly filtered, I'll have a good means of tracking down spam (ex: what spam comes from what server) and classifying it nicely, then reporting the bigger bad guys to their ISPs, and keeping note of the spam, so if I see it again, I report them to their new isp too!

I did this to one particular group, and it worked, since I later on noticed the spam was coming from a different server.

So this might not stop them, but it will piss them off, and when they start running out of servers to use, then yes, it may stop them. If I get the home server spammers then it's even better since I report them to their ISP, and ISPs are much more limited then servers. (ex: here there's like 5 isps)

I even thought of setting up something online to actually post spam, and the server it's on, and grouping them together (ex: list all what is sent from IP nn.nn.nn.nn) that way people can submit spam and it would make a huge repository of the different groups of spammers.

The problem is that spammers themselves could sign up and screw things up, so it will probably stay a private thing for now.

If it works out on the scale of spam I receive then I'll actually register emails and do on purpose to get as much spam as possible, so I have more to report.

Kill kill kill them all!!!!

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[Red Squirrel]

Suckers!!! got one pwned so far more to go. level3 is a pretty decent company when it comes to the abuse department, they responded quick to my complaint.

Really the thing with a "complaint" is to not actually complain but simply be nice about it, since I know some people just get pissed off at the isp/webhost but it's not their fault so it's no reason to get mad. I want to eventually set this up so it's automatic. I think there's software that will allow that. Basically spam over 7 points would automaticly be reported since false positives never get that high anyway.

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[Red Squirrel]

I just registered with spamcop... basically it's a service to report spam and they take care of the rest, and the also build a black list too. Man this will be fun. Spam is a war, and it must be faught without mercy. :hugegun5.gif: :hugegun5.gif: :hugegun5.gif:

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