[3138] in bugtraq
Re: mail storm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C. Harald Koch)
Tue Aug 13 17:59:38 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 12:21:23 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
From: "C. Harald Koch" <chk@border.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:01:33 -0400".
<Pine.GSO.3.95.960813065129.15616A-100000@dazed.nol.net>
In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.960813065129.15616A-100000@dazed.nol.net>, "Brett L. Hawn" writes:
>
> We ended up putting filters on port 25 for about some 200 IPs at the cisco
> for quite some time before we could manage to get ourselves off most of the
> lists. This was some 4 months ago and we *still* haven't gotten off all of
> them.
A suggestion for this: Install a mail filter. create a message header that
says:
From: mailer-daemon@site
To: <list-sender>
Subject: Message rejected: user unknown
the user root@site could not be found
----- unsent message follows -----
Then include the original message, and send it back to the envelope sender
field (and/or the header Sender: field) for every 'bogus' message you
receive. This simple trick will get you automatically unsubscribed from
about 80% of the lists. The rest you'll never see, because of your mail
filter, and some administrator will eventually get tired of the bounce
messages and unsubscribe you by hand.
--
C. Harald Koch | Border Network Technologies Inc.
chk@border.com | Senior System Developer
+1 416 368 7157 (voice) | 20 Toronto Street, Suite 400, Toronto ON M5C 2B8
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