On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Harold M Hallikainen wrote:

>         Interesting info on MAPS RBL! It seems that someone somewhere would have
> a script running that we could all just forward our spam to. On receiving
> some high number of copies (thus indicating it is indeed spam), it would
> take apart the headers, notify the appropriate abuse@ people, then
> finally dump them onto the RBL list. Anything like that exist? I'm
> getting tired of taking apart headers!

I wish someone could write a program good enough at taking apart headers
and separating the forged ones from the real ones.  Unfortunately, 99% of
the ones I do get either originate from hit-n-run dialups on national ISPs
(impossible to block, not bloody likely to get a response from the ISP) or
were shuttled through misconfigured mail servers in BFE with totally bogus
header information and are truly impossible to trace.

Sigh...

Dale
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