[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Dealing with Idiots

[John E. Malmberg]

Steven Maesslein wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:19:28 -0500, DC coughed into spamcop.geeks and
> left this in <d1b0ge$t02$1 at news.spamcop.net>:
> 
>>If I wanted to attempt legal action, could it be possible to trace their
>>news postings or use the IP address captured by our web mail form to
>>identify the person?
> 
> I wouldn't bother. You're probably going to spend a lot of time and 
> effort only to find that the postings were made and your webform 
> accessed through an open proxy.

And of course what ever processes the data from your web form should be 
able to check the popular open proxy lists.

Unless your web form is to be used to request an exception to an e-mail 
blocking list, chances are all connections to it from any listed open 
proxy address will be for malicious purposes.

You may even be able to have your web server deliver a 404 page to 
connections from open proxies.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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