Annoying Spam Problem

[ghia at ccs.neu.edu (Jon)]

Peter,

I appreciate your reply very much, but I need to do more than just block
the email coming in.  Right now we have thousands of mails coming in,
eating up
bandwidth, and most importantly we have people all over the world thinking
that my little company is providing them with the finest smut this side of
the white house.  The last thing I want is for our web site to get blocked
on because of indecent material  (other than the Microsoft logo)!!!

We have tried to contact the "company" who runs the domain, but they are
in Turkey, and don't answer their phones (I doubt they would speak
english even if they did).  Does anyone know about any laws on spamming??

Thanks for your reply,
Jon

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Peter Jon White wrote:

This may be way off base, but since in my email software I can filter by any
number of criteria, including "from", can't the same thing be done by your
server?

Peter Jon White
Peter White Cycles
666 Mass Ave
Acton, MA 01720
978 635 0969 Voice
978 929 9654 Fax
http://www.PeterWhiteCycles.com
mailto:Peter at PeterWhiteCycles.com
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a really big problem, somehow a spamer in Turkey has
> been sending out
> email broadcasts (mainly to turkey) looking for female
> employee's for some
> sort of female prostituting / movie business.  The mail
> headers state that
> the spam is coming from: ihlas.net, ihlas.net.tr,
> mailhub.ihlas.com.tr,
> cougar.ihlas.net.tr
>
> The Problem:
> The reply address, and the undeliverable mail is being sent
> to snp at snp.com
> -- my company!!!! (Don't flame me, but we do Microsoft,
> Novell, Cisco, and
> Linux work)  I have the feeling that this was an arbitrary
> decision, made by
> whoever the spamer is.
>
> That mailbox (snp at snp.com) was our general mailbox, for the
> whole company.
> You can  imagine our surprise when we came tuesday morning to find 450
> undelivered pieces of porn spam in everyone's mailbox.
> Luckily my boss has
> a pretty good sense of humor.
>
> Is there anything we can do??! (Relaying isn't turned on.)
>
> Jon
>
> ps We now have over 5000 mails in the snp at snp.com box
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> jon at snp.com
> ghia at ccs.neu.edu
>
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