[Coco] WARNING - Don't read post from Mike Hughes via CoCo

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 18 January 2015 09:44:42 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Sun, January 18, 2015 2:11 am, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> > Or don't click on link, it want's to trap you!
> 
> Also, please do not respond to this post so that the link appears in
> your reply. Please delete John Musbach's post also, as he reposted the
> link in his reply.
> 
> These can be malware -- especially ransomware these days.
> 
> They are often joe-jobs, where legitimate list members' addresses are
> scooped up from elsewhere, or a hijacked account. They are often sent
> to multiple addresses.
> 
> Subject lines tend to be blank or "hi there" or something simple,
> sometimes no body or a body with a "check this out" or "thought you
> would like this" followed by a link.
> 
> These can't be filtered, so delete them.
> 
> AND, if you're sending to the list, please include more than a link!
> 
> Thanks,
> Dennis

Are you using qmail Dennis?  Thats a linux app. It should be possible to 
reject that IP addy. I am not the mail server, but my main use mail server 
is also qmail, but I use mailfilter as a prelude to fetchmail to pop all 
my mail to this machine.  Mailfilter cannot do a kill spec involving a /28 
of an address block, but most spammers maintain a full class D, so it has 
been helpful for me to "deny" with enough of the IP address specified that 
its anchored to the first 3 numbers, therefore denying to whole 256 
addresses of a class D allocation.  And I watch its log closely enough 
that it has never denied a good address that I have been aware of.  With 
mailfilter, the deny means it is deleted from the server before fetchmail 
sucks it. It works against Gmail's servers and others too.

You may want to investigate it.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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