Re: Reporting botnet spam?

Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> My system gets regular spam from botnets

Just in case one person's jargon or argot [how about jargot?] isn't the
same as another's, here's a long discussion of the term botnet from a
reliable source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

That rather comprehensive discussion of the term wouldn't afford some
kind of 'special' blocklist for so-called botnet spam

> Is there an RBL or place where these attacks can be reported.

How about if you report your botnet spam the same way as you report the
rest of your spam, or the 'non-botnet' spam?

> These are generally dynamic pools, but not all RBLs are up-to-date on
> this material.   Seems reasonable that there could be an RBL that
> tracks botnet activity and can be used in DNS similarly.


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin