[ga] FYI - DOT.BIZ RE: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes (fwd)

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

lots of spam problems in .biz - nanog call to clean up.

regards
joe

Joe Baptista for Councillor City of Peterborough Town Ward 3
                Official Campaign Site @ www.joebaptista.com
                     Personal Web Space @ www.baptista.god

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:01:48 -0400
From: Geo. <georger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: nanog@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with
    trojaned boxes


>>There are two ways to go here -

* Nullroute or bogus out in your resolvers the DNS servers for this
domain --> two problems here.  One is that the spammer doesn't use
vano-soft.biz in the smtp envelope, and second, he abuses open
redirectors like yahoo's srd.yahoo.com <<

There is another option, create an email filter and block any email that
includes the text ".biz/" in any email.

That will do two things, it will stop the spams from being received in the
first place and it will cause one heck of a headache for the .biz domain so
they clean up their act and deal with their problems.

Geo.