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  • From: Neal <webdeveloper02 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Greeting Card Spam?
  • Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:17:28 -0800 (PST)


David,

I agree.. just one of the many problems with the Internet as it stands today
(TCP/IP is a whole
other rant for me).

GeekTools: http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi is a tool I use from
time to time.. you can
punch in a domain name or IP Address and get the needed info (as you pointed
out, to an extent).

- Neal

--- "David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Neal --
>
> as you may or may not be aware, the worldwide DNS system can already
> provide you
> /some/ of this information. "whois" is a command-line tool for tracing back
> to
> domain admin information. for those not interested in CLI tools, you can
> use
> <http://www.betterwhois.com/>. i'm sure there are other ways to get this
> info as
> well (for example, Mac OSX has some built in GUI tools for this).
>
> the problem is not getting the contact info, but getting anything DONE
> related
> to the abuse. often there is fake info given to registrars, so your
> complaints
> effectively go nowhere. even when there is factual contact info, they never
> seem
> to answer (or return) phone calls and abuse emails go unanswered.
>
> the next step from here is to contact their ISP, host, provider, etc. as
> you can
> see, this begins eating all of the spare time you used to have. so, we tend
> to
> rely on imperfect systems like MAPS (and now-defunct ORBS) to "filter the
> internet" for us. MAPS seems to have A LOT more enemies than i would have
> ever
> expected. abuse from all sides, as far as i can see...
>
> so, until the crude, uneducated opportunists of the internet choose to
> regulate
> themselves (HA!) we will have these problems. or until the homeland
> security
> office steps in and mentions that the spam issue has reached the level of
> RED
> (or CRITICAL) and decides to bomb spammers offices "back to afghanistan."
>
> ___ _ _____ . ....
> m a h t o o z e e a c k a t s p e e k e e z e e d o t n e t
> ------ / / ......... . . .
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Neal wrote:
>
> > One of the things that's always urked me about spam is that I can almost
> > always tell when the
> > return e-mail address is bogus without even trying to reply to it.
> >
> > I like this idea from ( http://mail-abuse.org/gc_rbl.html ):
> >
> > "" ** Greeting Card sites could place a card into a pending spool and
> > email a notification
> back to
> > the sender, requiring either a web link or email response, prior to
> > activating the card and
> > sending mail to the final recipient. This will verify that the listed
> > sender address is valid
> and
> > responding to email. ""
> >
> > Also... keep in mind that the sender is trying to get a message across..
> > be it advertising a
> web
> > site, selling a product, etc... and hence they eventually do have to
> > provide you with some
> sort of
> > "real" contact information.. be it a URL to the site, a phone number,
> > etc...
> >
> > .. and that's where I would love to see a client-side tool come in.. for
> > instance: A tool
> that
> > would allow you to select the e-mail and pull URLs from it... lookup the
> > owners domain /
> contact
> > information for that domain.. and send them a nasty-gram back.. etc..
> >
> > - Neal
>
>
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