Re: [ga] Domain names are highly irrelevant in the struggle against spam (Re: [ga] Vint why do none...)

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

I honestly don't know why anyone would try to reach the domain name 
holder regarding spam when that is most likely not the spammer in the 
first place - at least rarely nowadays.  Spam complaints need to go to 
the originating IP and the contact information for that is not in the dn 
holder's whois record.  

Like Kristy, I receive mail all the time with the "from" and "to" containing 
my own email address.  It comes from servers all over the world, 
although mostly Korea and  Romania.  The domain name whois is 
worthless for find spammers or stopping spam.  You need the contact 
for the relay mail servers.

Leah


On 18 Sep 2002, at 14:01, Kristy McKee wrote:

> True,
> 
> I recently received spam where the spammer had (for my convenience & to
> avoid bouncing email since they obviously were not sending from a valid
> SMTP host) with my email address in both the from and to sections of the
> message.
> 
> ~kristy
> 
> 
> At 02:00 AM 9/18/2002 +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > > At 07:23 AM 9/17/2002 -0700, todd glassey wrote:
> >
> > > >I get this SPAM this morning
> > > >and after doing a header analysis, we find
> > > >it comes from a domain
> >
> >The only thing certain about the origin of an email is the IP of the
> >mailserver through which it was sent. In many/most spam messages the
> >sender's email address in the header is fake, including the domain name(s)
> >involved. Even the hostname of the mailserver is quite often fake. We can
> >only rely on the IP.
> >
> > > >called 99talk.com, registered through the Boy Scouts
> > > >of Australia, only the contact email addresses for the domain all 
> > bounce...
> >
> >
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