I am forwarding this as I thought it was important. Maggie ------------------------- As far as I know, this list did not get hit by the Bath, ID spam but we sure did get hit by the Portuguese one. The filter program RootsWeb has developed caught it and only notified me as Listowner. Take note of Tim's last paragraph and pat yourselves on the back if you have contributed to RootsWeb. If you haven't, you can find out how at http://www.rootsweb.com. Later...Nancy Your Listowner >X-Message: #1 >Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 19:48:05 -0700 >From: Tim Pierce <twp@rootsweb.com> >To: listowners-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: SPAM REPORT: Boy, have we been busy. > >This was quite a day for the RootsWeb abuse team. > >famhis@doit.cc, origin@doit.cc, heraldry@doit.cc >================================================ > >This morning, our old friends in Bath, ID called us up and spammed >the bejesus out of our machines with their bogus surname history >scams. All of their posts came from a forged `doit.cc' domain, >which I blocked as soon as I got word of what was >happening... because of serious net lag this morning, however, >that didn't happen until well after they'd achieved their goal. > >Something important to remember: the reason this spam wasn't >refused outright doesn't have anything to do with its genealogical >trappings. The simple reason that it got through to your lists >was that the text and sender of the message didn't match anything >that our spam filter recognized as spam. Now that I've added >their forged domain to our `spamdomains' list, you shouldn't see >anything more from them. > >CVBOX spam >========== > >Meanwhile, back at the ranch... this afternoon, a Portuguese spam >outfit connected to rootsweb.com and spammed just about every list >on our system. Three times each. Over about an hour, they pumped >about 4,000 messages and 11MB into our list servers. Thankfully, >they're using a well-known spamming software package that was >readily caught by our filters, so none of your lists should have >been bothered by this. > >Even as I started to write this message, they started to do it ALL >OVER AGAIN. So we had to take more drastic measures, dropping the >Internet routes to their systems and blocking any mail from their >(forged) domain name. That should prevent them from even being >able to connect to our machines. > >So if I'm a little scarce for a while, you have some idea of why. >Getting copies of 4000 spams in your mailbox tends to slow you >down a little. > >All of the RootsWeb Members, Sponsors and Donors out there should >congratulate yourselves a little for this. The funds that you've >contributed to improve RootsWeb's systems were directly >responsible for our being able to implement spam filters like >these. If it weren't for your support, RootsWeb's list servers >would be a smoking pile of slag right now. Thanks for helping >keep us running! > >Regards, >Tim Pierce >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative >system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades > >______________________________ > !^NavFont02F09F50007NGHHPF62B77 Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/mindex.html *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* God Put Me On Earth to Accomplish a Certain Number of Things. Right Now I am so far behind, I will never die. --- Unknown *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*