Attack of the Killer Spam

Fri Jan 2 14:53:53 UTC 1998

I collect some spammer accountibng here; and I saw a lot of spam been 
sent from UUnet's, MCI's and Sprint's dialup addresses to some 
mail-relays. If someone want to get this collected spam messages, I can 
do it for him in near future.

PS. Don't kill anyone, but investigate him and poisone him to the 
half-live state -:). It's the best idea I know...

But I don't think it's the best place for the such discussions.

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Adam Rothschild wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:42:07 -0500
> From: Adam Rothschild <asr at millburn.net>
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Attack of the Killer Spam
> 
> NANOG folk:
> 
> Over the past few weeks, I have noticed an influx of SPAM(tm) transmitted by
> UUNet dynamic IP dial-up users (read: MSN, Earthlink, GTE, etc.) and relayed
> using Earthlink SMTP relays.  Am I turning senile prematurely, or has anyone
> else noticed this influx?
> 
> Also, how easy would it be for Earthlink and other nationwide "ISP's" (or
> more accurately, UU/PSI resellers) to do the following?  This would not stop
> SPAM(tm) dead in its tracks, but I figure it would make it easier to hold
> spammers accountable at least... unless, of course, they use throw-away
> accounts, in which case there is not much that can be done...
> 
> - institute anti-spam rules on their SMTP relays, i.e. only relay mail
> reporting to be from earthlink.net and the virtual domains they host
> 
> - only allow SMTP relaying from IP's assigned to *their customers*
> dynamically (cross-reference Radius logs?)
>
And what would you get? It's not problem for any spammer to bye 100 
dialup accounts around USA, and use (legally) all this UUnet's, MCI's etc 
mail relays... 

> Constructive feedback would be greatly appreciated!  Together, we CAN make a
> difference.

> 
> Regards,
> Adam
> 
> 