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Jeff Kell mentions an anti-spam service:

>Dorkslayers: Here's the killer. As most of you that get spammed nowadays (and
>     that try to trace them down) discover; a majority of the mass-spamming
>     occurring nowadays is relayed through innocent (or incompetently admin-
>     istered) mail servers. Dorkslayers is a dynamic list that tests any
>     mail server someone tells it about -via a web form- and if it discovers
>     that this mail server will relay anyones mail (i.e. spam) it gets added
>     to their 'blacklist'.

This used to be the RBLS (realtime black-hole service) list, unless I'm
mistaken. I recently got some SPAM (identified as such by the fact that
it came from a dialup port), that had the subject "RBLS Software Update."
Cheeky.

-- Bruce


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