[SpamCop-List] Re: AOL: Client TOS Notification

[Gordon Hudson]

"Pete Stephenson" <pete+usenet at heypete.com> wrote in message 
news:pete+usenet-C904DF.04030411122004 at news.cesmail.net...
> In article <cpel0a$4vd$1 at news.spamcop.net>,
> "Gordon Hudson" <gordon at usenet2.hostroute.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> It is the address which is the admin contact for the domain our server 
>> host
>> names are based on.
>
> Do you have a contact address listed with http://www.abuse.net/ for your
> domain(s)?

Yes.
AOL are using the admin email address for the domain the Ip reolves to.
I have now received a batch of 30 for an incident in mid November.

This is basically spam as all it is the original spam attached to an empty 
email with no explanation of why it is being sent to us.
I am probably just going to block AOL's IP's at our mail serve ror further 
back at the routers.



> Not so. There are some, but if you have up-to-date versions of PHP and
> appropriate protective measures in place the problems can be repaired.
> There are tens of thousands of web hosts out there that support PHP, and
> a tiny, tiny fraction of the spam I receive is sent from them.
>
> Keep your systems patched, up-to-date, and as secure as you can make
> them and the problem will all but disappear.


Nope, wont work.
Customer signs up with stolen card.
uses the mail() function to send spam.
We find him, but in the 2 hours ince he has flooded us with spam.

We could disable the mail() function but would lose all our customers.

All of those hosts you quote will have exactly the same problem.