[plug] Using open relays to mailbomb spammers ?

[Trent Lloyd]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:40:01PM +0800, Luke dudney wrote:
> 
> On 18/02/03 14:18, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> >G'day all,
> >
> >A "friend of mine" still getting spam from a couple of companies that 
> >just won't quit."They" had an evil thought about mailboming them but 
> >then figured of course the ip would be pretty easily traced. Then it 
> >occured to "them" to perhaps check orbs or similar and grab a couple 
> >of open relays to use to do the dirty work for "them".
> >I of course told "them" that this would be a naughty thing to do. What 
> >say all of you?
> >

Beside my earlier response (which was jovial) i Would second taking this course of action, would be even better if their ISP/bandwidth etc is in Perth so u can go pay thema  personal visit
Tho i doubt it is

> BAD idea. Fighting abuse with abuse is never a solution, and futhermore 
> is likely to be counter-productive.
> Stealing bandwith and resources from an unwitting 3rd party to be used 
> in an attack will get your 'friend' in even more trouble.
> Try posting that question to news.admin.net-abuse.email and see what 
> sort of response you get.
> 
> Better solution: LART the spammer's upstream bandwidth provider, web 
> hosting provider, DNS provider, and their upstream's upstream provider 
> until something happens.
> Post the full source of the email to news.admin.net-abuse.sightings with 
> subject "[email] <original subject>"
> 
> At the very least, have a read of the resources at 
> http://www.spamfaq.net/ before advising your 'friend'
> 
> Cheers
> Luke
>