OT: SPAM Spoofing

At 6:51 AM -0400 3/23/07, Brad Parker wrote: I'm now able to check and reject emails with invalid usernames 12 characters or less, AND 13 characters or more (what I was unable to do). Of course this required an emergency upgrade last night to OpenVMS V8.3, and staying up to 1am. I'm more than a little ticked HP didn't consider this a bug, and didn't fix it (I already was even prior to this). The Good: I now have a current tape backup of my system disk I'm back on a smaller system disk (18Gb vs 36Gb) I've finally gotten the upgrade to 8.3 done, and fully patched I've cut my problems from spam down to stuff sent to the postmaster account (I'd actually disabled this email address but re-enabled it last night, as if I'm ever going to get valid email to it, now is probably the time). The Bad: Still getting quite a bit of activity, though it doesn't seem to be a continuous flood like last night I have to upgrade Oracle RDB to a version that will run on VMS 8.3 Thoughts: HP's tying TCPIP upgrades to VMS upgrades is a problem. I was perfectly happy on 7.3-2 (which will continue to be a fully supported version for quite some time), and this gives me even more reason to consider ripping out HP TCPIP and installing Process Software's Multinet stack, which will likely be coupled with PMDF and their Anti-Spam solution. Question: How common is it to see problems where a spammer is apparently spoofing both the domain name and the IP address? Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |