Fighting a spam fire with a DDoS

[Frank Wiles]

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:41:41 -0600
"Brian Kelsay" <Brian.Kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> Funny, whenever I try that sight I get this:
>      "Yes, attacking spammers is wrong, you know this, you shouldn't
>      be doing it. Your ip    address and request have been logged and
>      will be reported to your ISP for further action."

 I agree, we shouldn't be attacking the zombies or the websites that 
 host the spammer.  Very seldom are the spammers on a server all their
 own.  I do however condone logging tons of bogus information to the
 mortgage sites and anything else that will pollute their data and waste
 the spammers time. 

 I've used a Sendmail Milter and/or iptables rules in the past that will
 slow down a particular sending site once it has been deemed a spam
 site. This works very well to hijack a particular zombie and keep it
 busy for hours while it tries to deliver it's few messages to you. 
  
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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
   http://www.wiles.org
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