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|    Some Guy to Alan    |
|    Re: spam email    |
|    26 Oct 12 19:48:02    |
      From: Some@Guy.com              Alan wrote:              > from header.. X-Originating-IP: [77.95.132.50]       >       > How do I resolve this IP address ?              Go to iptools.com and do a whois on that IP.              As others have said - it belongs to someone in russia.              If you operated your own smtp server (as I do, for the past 13 years) I       would advise you to add the entire net-block 77.95.0.0/16 to your       server's blocking list.              I have a general rule of adding the entire /16 netblock for any spam       sent to various addresses hosted by our company's server.              I started with a list of about 8,000 IP subnets located in russia,       ukraine, china, south and central america, and add new subnets according       to my /16 rule.              On any given day, our server is rejecting about 250 SMTP connections       from various IP's based on this blocking strategy.              But we still get maybe 1 or 2 spams per day that get through.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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