[Milsurplus] SPAM using this list

[mikea]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:14:29PM -0700, Bruce Lane wrote:
> Hi, gang,

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> On 21-Sep-04 at 12:21 J. Forster wrote:

> >Someone in Korea is harvesting addresses from this list and using
> >it to send out SPAM. This is CERTAIN because this list's address is
> >referenced in the email as a clickable link.

> FYI: 'SPAM' (all uppercase) is a registered trademark of Hormel
> Foods. What you refer to is 'spam' (E-mail spewage).

> >The culprit's email address is:
> >
> > skyok at skylifeok.ne

> Probably forged.

> >If you think this is totally unacceptable, I suggest you use Google
> >to find the email address of Korean officials and tell them how you
> >feel about this kind of abuse.

> Speaking as someone who's been self-hosted (read: I run all my own
> servers, including DNS) for years, I can say with absolute confidence
> that you're unlikely to even get a boilerplate response out of any
> Korean, official or otherwise, in reference to their huge spammer
> infestation (though I do agree that the behavior of any spammer is
> utterly reprehensible).

> Let me put it another way: There's a reason that the entire COUNTRY
> of Korea has been placed in God only knows how many spam blacklists
> (my own included), and thus denied connectivity, at least in terms of
> E-mail, to numerous ISPs and domains all over the rest of the planet.

> For those that have the ability to do so, I strongly suggest
> blocking any traffic from Korean IP space until they get their mess
> cleaned up (I'm not counting on it in my lifetime).

What Bruce Wrote, in spades. 

Nowadays the published abuse contact for almost all Korean IP space is
some mailbox at the Korean Information Security Agency, and mailing it
gets you a boilerplate telling you (1) to jump through the hoops at 
their webform, and (2) they're just a gov't agency and they don't have 
any control over the spammers or their ISPs. I suppose they use the 
complaints to their webform to make sure the spammers are meeting 
their quotas or something.

If I sound a little chapped, it may be because I'm sick-and-fscking-
tired of spam from Korean machines.

One unfortunate result of not getting any more mail from Korean IP 
space is that I'm no longer in touch with the nice lady in Korea to 
whom I was seriously thinking about sending an R-390A. Sorry, Brenda,
but the flood was up to my neck, and it was mostly spammer-exhaust. 
It would have been bad enough if it had been horse- or pig-exhaust,
but spammer-exhaust was much worse.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin