AW: [anti-abuse-wg] how to detect spambots - SPAMTrusted

On Thursday 12 March 2009 16.37, Leo Vegoda wrote:
> On 12/03/2009 1:15, "Frank Gadegast" <ripe-anti-spam-wg at powerweb.de> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Users are usually uninformed about their possibilities and only
> > complain a lot. Spam is not being recognized by the masses as
> > being a crime so far.
> 
> And based on what I see, they tend to send abuse reports to the wrong place
> because they don't now how to read e-mail headers and the on-line tools they
> use often don't read them correctly either. I don't think end users should
> have to know how to read e-mail headers but I know that they often try to in
> an attempt to reduce the amount of spam they receive and then get very
> confused and frustrated when they get a note back telling them they sent the
> complaint to the wrong place.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Leo

A suggestion might be to 
A/ encourage users to report spam via a tool s.a. spamcop where the mail & headers 
are interpreted correctly  and
B/ ask spamcop to send a copy of reports referring to RIPE-blocks to european police
and let them take action.

Something has to be done (or e-mail as we see it is dead).  Posession of
unsecure computers connected to public network should be an offense. A broken
into PC sending malware manifests all proof needed of guilt.

ISP also has a role, detect and prevent abuse of all sorts. A simple block-port25 
( and forcing outbound mail to be relayed over ISP-mailservers) would contribute
a lot.  

Spammers themselfs should be targeted, all of them uses a channel for money, it should
be fairly easy for police to follow that chain. 

I want action this day !

> 
> 
> 

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        Peter Håkanson   

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