From: LuKreme (kremelskreme.com)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 03:23:00 CST

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On Apr 1, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Robin Lynn Frank wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 23:38, LuKreme, LuKreme <kremelskreme.com>
> wrote:
>> I want to say "Hey you spammer scum, you're emailing to a spamtrap.
>> You're locked out of my system completely for the next x
>> hours/days/weeks."
>
> And in x hours/days/weeks, the spammer sees theerror of his/her ways
> and then
> sends you legitimate mail? I don't think so. We used to use
> REJECT Use of a spam trap addresse permanently bans you from our
> network.

Well, that is an idea, but it would blacklist servers that relayed
mail, like, say, if some spammer sent out email via their eathlink
account this would blacklist earthlink's mailservers permanently.

That doesn't sound like to great an idea, and a temp ban should be
effective enough.

> Then, I figured out that the last thing I wanted to do was tell theses
> bozos
> they were sending mail to an address that instantly identified them as
> spammers.

Spammers are not "told" anything because they are not looking at
rejects. I had one chinese server that kept trying to send me mail. I
finally had to add them to access to stop the connections. I think I
had over 10,000 rejects to that IP in a few hours. If they were
looking at REJECTs they wouldn't have keep trying to connect every
second.

--
Over 3,500 gay marriages and, what, no hellfire? I was promised
hellfire. And riots. What gives? -- Mark Morford

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