Automatic spam reporting

Rich Veraa (Rich.Veraa@907.sunshine.com)
10 Jul 96 19:20:16 -0400

In a message to rich veraa kelias@clic.net wrote:

> Path: clicnet!news.clic.net!rcogate.rco.qc.ca!n2ott.istar!ott.istar!
> istar.net!news.nstn.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!newsfeed.pitt.edu!
> scramble.lm.com!news.math.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!
> vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!
> nntp.earthlink.net!usenet

kc> Perhaps your little program could be configured to allow a user to
kc> automatically post messages as far up the path (from the root) as
kc> necessary until s/he finally stopped getting a bounce. At that
kc> point, you presumably have the postmaster you actually want (or at
kc> least one who is very close to the action).

Good thought. That can be done easily by hand in YARN -- when a message is
bounced, scroll down to the path line of the spam the program sent, hit "m"
to forward, and send the bounce one link higher than the last time.

Cheers,
Rich

http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/

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