[Mimedefang] What to do about bounced forgeries?

[David F. Skoll]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Rick Mallett wrote:

> > Nope.  There's really very little you can do about it, unless the spammers
> > live in the US.  Then, there's a faint hope you can go after them
> > for forging the sender address... if you can find them.

> Based on the sample I collected it seems the real spammers have
> hijacked thousands of home systems to send their messages so I'm not
> even sure who to go after. There were 10 Rogers and 19 Videotron
> customers in the sample. Should I try to contact Rogers and Videotron
> and ask them to investigate?

Sure, you might as well.

Much as I hate to admit it, I think Sympatico did the right thing by
forcing residential customers to relay through Sympatico's mail
servers and firewalling off outbound SMTP connections.  This lets
Sympatico detect and shut down these kinds of abusers.

Regards,

David.