[92970] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lcs Mixmaster Remailer)
Sat Jan 10 20:25:23 1998
Date: 11 Jan 1998 01:00:01 -0000
To: the sheriff <sheriff@speakeasy.org>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
>I've got a question for y'all.
>
>Some idiot finally sent me a junk e-mail message that
>I couldn't do anything about with what I have the
>knowledge to do -- reading the headers turned up only
>one ISP, which was apparently owned by the spammer.
>
>I'm hoping you guys would know where I could find out
>more about this individual -- I'm hoping that he does
>in fact buy his service from someone else, and if so,
>I'm not sure how to find that out. If he doesn't, is
>there anything I can do?
His traffic has to be routing through somebody or multiple somebodies.
Traceroute it and complain to the upstream site. Unless they're cretins like
CIX they'll kill his connection.
